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From: danield@pnet01.cts.COM (Daniel Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Help with mouse text
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Date: 30 Jan 88 07:27:44 GMT
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>  I hear all this about mouse text and non of my //e+ manuals say anything
> about it. Would someone please give me a paragraph on mouse text. I am
> particularly interested in how one enters and exits.

To use mousetext you need an enhanced //e, //c, or IIgs. This is what the 
Apple //c Technical Reference Manual says about useing MouseText.

To use mousetext, do the following :

1) Turn on the enhanced video firmware with a PR#3
2) set inverse mode: use the INVERSE command or put a $3f in location $32, or
   print CONTROL-O.
3) Turn on Mousetext with PRINT CHR$(27); or pass $1B to COut in the
   accumulator.
4) Print the upercase letter ( Or other ASCII character in the range $40
   through $5F : @ [\]^ or _ ) that coresponds to the mousetext character that
   you want.
5) Turn Off MouseText with PRINT CHR$(24); or Pass $18 to COut1 in the
   accumulator.
6) Set normal mode : Use the NORMAL command or put a $FF in location $32, or
   print a CONTROL-N.

This sample Applesoft program prints all the mousetext characters :

10 D$= CHR(4);
20 PRINT: PRINT D$;"PR#3"
30 INVERSE
40 PRINT CHR$(27);"@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_";
50 PRINT CHR$(24);
60 NORMAL


I hope this helps answer your question.

I can't garantee that I typed that quite right or that that will even work but
you can give it a try.

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