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Project maintained by Cory Smith

LINE

Draws a line or box on the screen.

Syntax

LINE [STEP]-STEP [,[color][,[B[F]][,linestyle]]]

Comments

LINE draws either a line using the coordinate pairs (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) as endpoints or a box with (x1, y1) as one corner and (x2, y2) as the opposite corner.

The keyword STEP directs LINE to use the coordinates as an offset from the last point plotted as opposed to physical coordinates.

color is the line or box color.

B directs LINE to draw a box rather than a line.

F directs LINE to fill the box with the specified color.

linestyle is a 16-bit value whose bits determine whether or not pixels are drawn. By changing this value, you change the style of lines on your screen.

Example

'Fill the screen with random boxes
SCREEN 1 
FOR i = 1 TO 1000
  x1 = RND * 320
  y1 = RND * 200
  x2 = RND * 320
  y2 = RND * 200
  scolor = RND * 4
  LINE (x1. y1)-(x2, y2). scolor. BF
NEXT i 

See Also

• CIRCLE, COLOR, DRAW, PAINT, POINT, PRESET, PSET, SCREEN