Re: Question about displaying text

John, have you had a look at Windows colorForth block 232 yet?
I've done some stuff with that code as well, and when I recover here i'll post.


Ray

On 12/28/06, John Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> --- Robert Patten <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > \ untested
> >
> > var s 2 ( hello  world ) \ s number of cells in()
> >
> > : stype  ( a-) dup  @ for  1 + @  dup  f and if
> > space then drop
> > : type ( an-) fffffff0 and unpack if emit type ;
> > then drop next drop ;
> >
> > : ok show text s stype keyboard ;
>
> Thanks.  After posting this plea I had done
> something similair.
>
> http://primarycolorforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/typing-colorforthver-20.html
>
> And this is the best version so far:
>
> http://primarycolorforth.blogspot.com/2006/12/typing-colorforthversion-30.html
>
> Still need to handle "extended" words better.
> But I have an idea of how to do this.
>
> Regards,
>
> John M. Drake
>
>
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