BASIC PUT SCREEN Statement

PUT SCREEN

TYPE: plusBASIC graphics statement

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FORMAT: PUT SCREEN ( column , row ) , arrayname

Action: Copies a rectangle of text screen data from a numeric array to the screen.

• column and row specifies the screen position of the upper-left corner of the rectangle.
• endcol and endrow specifies the lower-right corner of the rectangle.
• arrayname is the name of the array to copy the screen data from.
• The width and height of the rectangle is defined when the array is populated with a GET statement.
• Illegal Quantity results from any of the following conditions:
  • column is not in the range 0 through 39.
  • row is not in the range 0 through 24.

Examples:

10 DIM A(13)
20 GET SCREEN (2,3)-(7,8),*A
30 PUT SCREEN (10,5),*A

Copies text screen contents from column 2, line 3 through column 7, line 8 to column 10, line 5 through column 15, line 10.