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From: jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: More Basic questions
Message-ID: <17169@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 8 Jun 89 13:49:23 GMT
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Thanks to all who responded to my "Boomerang" message.  I now have some 
ideas on how to pursue screen enhanced text and scroll-able windows in
Amiga-Basic.  This brings me to part II of my Q and A marathon.

1.  ENHANCED TEXT - It has been recommended that I utilize the appropriate
escape sequences for bold, italic, inverse, etc to enhance text.  I can get 
these to work just fine from CLI or Shell, but when I 'PRINT' the same 
sequence from Basic I get the escape sequence displayed as text.  How do I
get Basic to put out the escape sequence as an escape sequence rather than
text?  I have tried a couple variants of the stream, including using the
actual escape (ASCII 27), but with no success.  I am probably overlooking
something fundamental!

2.  SCROLLING TEXT - Several recommended that I write my text into a 
super-bitmap and scroll my display window over it.  This sounds like what
I want to do.  Can someone point me to information on what structures &
library functions I need to accomplish this?  I am sure this is not a trivial
effort, so I need some rather explicit guidance.  Hopefully some of this
has been covered in some of the Amiga Basic articles that have dealt with
the use of Libraries & Functions.  All pointers, examples will be greatly 
appreciated.

Thanks for all the great support past/present/future.

Regards, Jerry