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robert.rozee
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Joined: 31/12/2012
Location: New Zealand
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Posted: 09:37pm 12 Apr 2014

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for your amusement, a little micromite demo i put together this afternoon that uses VT100 commands to set colour, X,Y position, and some (limited) character attributes:

clrscr

Print at$(21,3) colour$(4) "Colour MicroMite Demonstration"

For B=30 To 37
For C=40 To 47

Print at$((B-25)*4, C-35) colour$(1, B, C) "abcd"

Next C: Next B

Print at$(1, 20) colour$() "press enter to exit ";
Line Input a$
End

Function at$(x,y)
at$=Chr$(27)+"["+Str$(Y)+";"+Str$(X)+"H"
End Function

Function colour$(A, B, C)
Local temp$
temp$=Chr$(27)+"["+Str$(A)+"m"
If B<>0 Then temp$=temp$+Chr$(27)+"["+Str$(B)+"m"
If C<>0 Then temp$=temp$+Chr$(27)+"["+Str$(C)+"m"
colour$=temp$
End Function

Sub clrscr
Print Chr$(27)+"[2J"
End Sub

for the colour$ function the values to use can be found at the end of this page:
http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm

the 'blink' attribute doesn't seem to work for me with teraterm. note that if the program exits without a colour$(0) or colour$() then the micromite editor seems to miss resetting the colour attribute for the 2nd to last line of the screen.

enjoy,
rob :-)

WhiteWizzard
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Posted: 09:19am 13 Apr 2014

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WOW - I really like that!

Could open up some very interesting possibilities with Geoff's VT Terminal Module that he said he might possibly design one day!

WhiteWizzard
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Posted: 09:30am 13 Apr 2014

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rob,

On my 44-pin MicroMite module, if you press the reset button during the process of drawing the 'matrix', then TeraTerm's window keeps the background colour equal to that which was drawn at the time of reset!

Also the 'Colour MicroMite Demonstration' heading text is likewise in the colour too equal to the foreground colour that was being drawn.

The MicroMite has more colours than the MaxiMite

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