Is it possible to change colour of text?

[dangerousbrian]

I can't find any colour commands to do with text, string$, fonts etc. (it's not that important, but if its possible & doesn't slow things down too much it would look a lot better in my little programme)

[kevin]

If your using normal windows fonts (which aren't real fast at the best of times)  you can change the colour at anytime by using the INK command

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Ink rgb(255,0,255)
text 100,100,"Hello"

ink rgb(0,0,255)
text 200,100,"World"

sync
waitkey

[dangerousbrian]

Thanks Kevin, (I couldn't find any reference to it in the help files - I must have been looking in the wrong place!)

[kevin]

Yeah at the moment, the Help could use some help..  

You can think of INK like a PEN colour,  after you've set the INK colour most (not all) of the vector graphics command (like Dot,Line,Box etc) will use the previously set INK colour  


ie.

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 Ink rgb(0,0,255)
print "Ink is now this Colour"

; draw some random dots, these dots will be drawn in the previous INK colour (which will be  bluely colour)
 For lp=0 to 100
   Dot Rnd(100),rnd(100)
 next

; change the ink colour
 ink rgb(255,0,0)
print "Ink is now this Colour"
; draw some more random dots in the new ink colour
 For lp=0 to 100
   Dot Rndrange(100,200),rnd(100)
 next


; or, you can select the colour of each dot, using the DotC command
; this doesn't change the global INK colour

 For lp=0 to 100
   Dotc Rndrange(200,300),rnd(100),rndrgb()
 next


print "see - Ink is the same"


 sync
 waitkey