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$COLOR is a metacommand that adds named color CONST in a program.

Syntax

$COLOR:{0|32}

Description

• $COLOR:0 adds CONST for colors 0-15. The actual constant names can be found in the file source/utilities/color0.bi.
• $COLOR:32 adds CONST for 32-bit colors, similar to HTML color names. The actual constant names can be found in the file source/utilities/color32.bi.
• $COLOR is a shorthand to manually using $INCLUDE pointing to the files listed above.
• NOTE: When using $NOPREFIX, the color constants change to C_ (ex: Blue becomes C_Blue).

Example(s)

Adding named color constants for SCREEN 0:

$COLOR:0
COLOR BrightWhite, Red
PRINT "BrightWhite on red."

Bright white on red.

Adding named color constants for 32-bit modes:

SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(640, 400, 32)
$COLOR:32
COLOR CrayolaGold, DarkCyan
PRINT "CrayolaGold on DarkCyan."

Using $COLOR with $NOPREFIX:

$NOPREFIX
$COLOR:0
COLOR C_BrightWhite, C_Red
PRINT "BrightWhite on Red."
 

See Also

• COLOR, SCREEN
• _NEWIMAGE, $INCLUDE
• $NOPREFIX
• Metacommand