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SCREEN (Function)

Returns the character or the color attribute for the character at the specified row and column.

Syntax

x=SCREEN(row,column[, get_color])

Comments

row and column are the coordinates of the character.

get_color is a numeric expression. If get_color is 1, SCREEN returns the color of the character. If get_color is 0 or is omitted, SCREEN returns the ASCII value of the character at the specified position.

Examples

DIM scr(1 TO 25, 1 TO 80) AS INTEGER
'Store current screen contents
FOR row = 1 TO 25
  FOR column = 1 TO 80
    scr(row, column) = SCREEN(row, column)
  NEXT column
NEXT row