Re: custom colors?

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Rick VanNorman wrote:

> The colors are managed from a table in memory. This entry in this
> table contains a color reference, which may be a palette index or
> an rgb value. The default is palette indexes. The first eight values
> in it are probably the ones of interest to you:
>
> CREATE COLOR-TABLE
> \ TEXT BACKGROUND
> BLACK , WHITE , \ normal
> WHITE , BLACK , \ inverse
> RED , WHITE , \ bright
> BLUE , WHITE , \ bold
>
> Replace the colors you want with your eye-tuned values, execute
>
> COLOR-TABLE SET-COLORS
>
> and the colors will be used. I'm not sure if your configuration
> of SwiftX will allow you to save a disk image of the executable
> to permanently change the values. You could patch the executable,
> at your own risk.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Rick

It does. Thanks.

I don't know if I can save a disk image either (probably not, since
I don't have SwiftForth.) Loading a file with my custom table
satisfies my needs.

Noted that RGB byte ordering is as follows:
$FF = red; $FF00 = green; $FF0000 = blue.

-- 
Ron Oliver <roliver_at_openesque.com>
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