AGEBasic characters map codes

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You can escape character map codes in a string to get the desired character printed in the screen.

C64 skin style character map

For example, let str = "this is an horizontal rule: \64" the \64 refers to the character # 64 in the character map (starting in zero).

You need to escape codes only to get “special” characters, the usual ones are mapped to the correspondent character map, like A or %

E.g.

140 PRINT 0,0, ("\64" * 15) + " JUKEBOX " + ("\64" * 15), 1, 0

Result for c64 charmap:

Warning

1. String operations doesn’t work correctly with escaped characters. E.g. len("a\233") results to 5 , not to the expected 2
2. The inverted parameter in the string doesn’t work for special characters (like you can see in the previous example)

This program prints the character map on screen:

10 CLS
20 LET charnum = 0
30 FOR row = 0 to ScreenHeight() - 1
40   PRINT 0, row, str(charnum)
50   FOR col = 4 to 16+4
60     LET strcharnum = str(charnum)
70     PRINT col, row, "\" + strcharnum
80     LET charnum = charnum + 1
90     IF charnum > 255 THEN GOTO 500
100   NEXT col
110   PRINT col + 2, row, str(charnum - 1)
120 NEXT row
 
500 PRINT col + 2, row, str(charnum - 1)
510 END

ZX Charmap

C64 charmap

Note

You can change the system-skin for the configuration cabinet using the AGE configuration using files to get access to a different character map.