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Overriding Defaults

The following output and object-

definition commands have the op-

tional COLOR <color pair list> and

COLOR SCHEME <scheme number>

dauses to let you specify a color

scheme literally or by number for that

command only.

@...FILL

@...GET

@...SAY

@ TO

BROWSE

CHANGE

DEFINE POPUP

DEFINE WINDOW

Edit

The COLOR and COLOR SCHEME

options override the default color

scheme that the command would nor-

mally use, without actually changing

the default scheme. For example, if

you had two different types of user

windows, you might want to create

one type using a color scheme dif-

ferent from number 1, the default.

*

Define window with a scheme

other than number 1.

DEFINE WINDOW foo FROM 5,5 TO

10,20 COLOR SCHEME 13

Default colors can be overridden

either with literal color pairs or a dif-

ferent scheme number. For por-

tability and ease of program main-

tenance, it is always best to use

predefmed schemes and reference

them by number.

*

Non-portable.

@...SAY <text> COLOR W+/G

*

Portable.

@...SAY <text> COLOR SCHEME 2

The COLOR and COLOR SCHEME

options must execute last on the com-

mand line. COLOR takes a different

number of color pairs depending on

the command.

Use IscoLoR() to discover

whether the machine is operating

with a color or monochrome display

adapter.

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