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Date: 4 Nov 90 00:27:06 GMT
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Category 1,  Topic 45
Message 54        Sat Nov 03, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 14:28 CST
 
Screen Attributes in Pygmy
     I'll explain how to change the foreground and background colors.   It is
all controlled by the variable ATTR (which stands for  "attribute").  The most
significant nibble controls the background  color and the next-to-most
significant nibble controls the foreground  color.  The 2 least significant
nibbles (the least significant byte)  should be set to zero.
     Do        HEX    ATTR @  U.      to see what colors are currently  set. 
On my color system I get    7100   where the 7 is a light  background and the
1 is a blue foreground.  For the monochrome system,  I believe the attribute
would be hex  700  where the (unseen) leading  zero is the background and the
7 is the foreground.
     The next step is to try different values until you get ones you  like,
for example
          HEX
          1700 ATTR !
          5400 ATTR !
          3200 ATTR ! when you find the combination you like best, you can
either type it in  each time you bring up Pygmy, or you can    SAVE
NEWPYGMY.COM   after  making the change once, or you can search across screens
in the editor  for ATTR to see where it is initialized to either $7100 or
$0700  and  change it to your values and regen (meta-compile) Pygmy.
  -- Frank
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