Re: DEF USR and strings?
Sean Conner via Coco <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]>
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It was thus said that the Great Allen Huffman via Coco once stated: > > On Oct 29, 2025, at 6:15 PM, Bruce Borer via Coco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I do not know what can and cannot be done (yet) but can you pass the > > address (number) of the string and use the pointer in USRn to do what you > > want? > > Yes, the way we’ve always done it is to use VARPTR. I have an article > series on my site where I dove into how that worked. > > But, earlier this year I saw someone post saying you didn’t need to use > VARPTR. That stuck in the back of my mind until I had time to revisit the > subject (now). That would make things much easier. Yes, that probably was my blog posts: https://boston.conman.org/2024/11/26.2-3 where I go into how to use DEFUSR with Color BASIC and Extended Color BASIC. -spc -- Coco mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco