Re: A86: Re: Closing menus


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Re: A86: Re: Closing menus




Thanks.  I checked the equates, the memory is not the same.  What is the
difference?
One more question:  How do you create local and global variables that are not
stored in the program?

David Phillips
electrum@tfs.net


Trey Jazz wrote:

> use this call to close the menus so you can write to the bottom 1 or 2 lines
>
> _flushallmenus  equ     49DCh
>
> the _penRow and _penCol are the same as the _curRow and _curCol but for the
> small font and the _vputs is the same as _puts but small and they can both
> be displayed on the screen at the same time not like on diff screens a la
> QBasic.
>
> I wrote this little tic-tac-toe game to teach myself 86asm and had one
> problem (well, once I had it working...):  I only ran it from ASM(, but when
> pasting the name from the prog menu, the bottom two lines were cut off, like
> the menus stayed open.  It worked fine when typing tictac from a blank
> screen.
> It uses _puts to output text, so it looks like a TI-BASIC program.  Do you
> have to do anything to close menus when using the text-mode?  BTW, how does
> that work?  Is there a screen-mode change, or just call a separate function
> for the multi-width small font?




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