Table of Contents
Advertisement
GETIING ACQUAINTED
USING THE COLOR MENU
The terminal
can
dispiay a menu of nine predefined
colors.
To
choose
a
color
from
the color menu
,
you first select the item whose
color
you want to change
,
then you
select a new color from
a
list of nine predefined colors
.
Pressing Function Key F5
displays the colors that you
can
select
.
Try it
now:
Use the Joydisk to move the crosshair cursor to the red
star.
Take a few moments to examine the banner at the bottom of the screen
.
Notice the
word Graphics at the left end of the
banner.
This indicates that the
crosshairs
are in
the graphics
area.
Below this is a small
square
of red and the label index
2.
The
small red square is a sample
of
the
color
the cursor is on
,
and the label tells
you
the
color is Index
2.
Continuing on
now:
Press the F5 key and hold it down
.
The list of nine color names is displayed beside the crosshairs
,
as
shown in Figure
2-Ba
,
and the message
,
"Hold F5 down and place crosshairs over the color
desired"
appears at the top of the
banner.
While holding down F5 with one hand
,
press the Joydisk with your
other hand to move the intersection of the crosshair cursor into the
color menu
.
Then move the cursor up and down within the color
menu
.
Notice that the
color
of the star changes to the color selected by the
cursor.
At the
bottom of the screen
,
the small colored square in the banner also
changes
to the
selected
color and informs
you of the
color's
index
number.
Next:
Move the cursor to the color name green
,
as shown in Figure
2-8b.
Then
,
release the Joydisk and the F5
key.
The star remains green because that is the color name the
cursor
was on when you
released F5
.
The list of color names disappears.
You have just used the
color
menu to
change
the color definition of Index 2 from red
to green. Notice that the bricks also changed to green because they also use Index
2.
When you change the color definition of a color in the graphics
area,
all
occurrences of that color are changed.
2-22
4106/4
107/4109
OPERATORS
Advertisement
Table of Contents
