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 Message 17 
 Gary McCulloch to All 
 Skypix... 
 27 Mar 20 16:26:04 
 
MSGID: 1:154/50@fidonet 5e7e7d7e
PID: C-NET PRO 5.21C
SE BRUSH (BLIT)              ESC [ 7 ; a ; b ; c ; d ; e ; f ; g ; h !

    A = upper-left X coord. of the source bitmap
    B = upper-left Y coord. of the source bitmap

    The above two will usually be 0.  HOWEVER, you can use these to blit
    parts of a brush to the screen.

    C = upper-left X coord. of the destination (the screen X coord.)
    D = upper-left Y coord. of the destination (the screen Y coord.)
    E = horizontal (X) size of brush
    F = vertical (Y) size of brush
    G = MINTERM to be supplied to the blitter (commonly 192)
    H = MASK to be supplied to the blitter (commonly 255)

    The above commands blit what is in the brush buffer (following a
    CRC Transfer or a GRAB BRUSH command) - if no brush is found, the
    command aborts.

        Next Command       'SkyPix Commands' Menu     Table of Contents  

Command #8

8 - MOVE PEN                                              ESC [ 8 ; x ; y !

    (Move the drawing pen to X,Y - NOT the cursor)

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Command #9

9 - PLAY SAMPLE                                   ESC [ 9 ; a ; b ; c ; d !

    (Plays a simple sample.  A is the "speed" of the sample, B is the
    starting point in bytes, C is the ending point in bytes, and D is the
    number of loops to perform)

    NOTE: Parameters A-C are not yet implemented.

    SPINY'S NOTE: As of C-Net version 2.63, SkySound is not yet
    implemented.  Hopefully it will be added by the developers in the
    future.

        Next Command       'SkyPix Commands' Menu     Table of Contents  

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10- SET FONT                                 ESC [ 10 ; y ! fontname.font !

    (Y is the size of the font, and fontname is the name of the font - the
    font must be in the fonts: directory of both the BBS and the Remote
    user for this command to work!)

    SPINY'S NOTE: It's wise to stick to just the basic 7 Workbench fonts,
    since you know everyone will have them available on their system disk.

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11- NEW PALETTE                 ESC [ 11 ; c1 ; c2 ; c3 ; ... ; c15 ; c16 !

    Sets the palette to the sixteen colours C1-C16 [you must enter all 16
    colours even if you are just in 8-colour mode!]  The parameters C1-C16
    are decimal numbers arrived at in the following way:

    Take a grey, for instance, whose R-G-B value is 12-12-12.  Then convert
    that to C-C-C (since 12 is hex $0C).  Now take the hex number CCC and
    convert back into Decimal, which gives you 3276.

    NOTE: Unless you are a massochist, I'd suggest using SKYPAINT since it
    does all of the above automatically.  Even if you just need to set the
    palette, load up SKYPAINT and begin recording, go to the palette screen
    and set it to what you want, then end recording.  You can then look at
    the tiny file you created and tell what ESC [ 11 command is needed in
    your final project.

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12- RESET PALETTE                                                ESC [ 12 !

    Resets to the SkyPix standard palette, which is

         R   G   B  |       R   G   B  |       R   G   B  |       R   G   B
    ----------------+------------------+------------------+----------------
    0 = 00  00  00  |  4 = 00  15  01  |  8 = 00  11  06  | 12 = 00  00  15
    1 = 01  01  15  |  5 = 03  10  15  |  9 = 00  13  13  | 13 = 07  00  15
    2 = 13  13  13  |  6 = 15  15  02  | 10 = 00  10  15  | 14 = 12  00  14
    3 = 15  00  00  |  7 = 12  00  14  | 11 = 00  07  12  | 15 = 12  00  08

    This would have the same effect as entering:
    ESC [ 11 ; 0 ; 287 ; 3549 ; 3840 ; 241 ; 943 ; 4082 ; 3086 ; 182 ;
          221 ; 175 ; 124 ; 15 ; 1807 ; 3086 ; 3080 !

    [See also Command #15 for info on the default palette]

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13- FILLED ELLIPSE                               ESC [ 13 ; x ; y ; a ; b !

    (Same as standard Ellipse [Command #5], except this one is filled-in)

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4

14- DELAY (PAUSE)                                            ESC [ 14 ; a !

    (A is a value in jiffies [60ths of a second])

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5

15- SET COLOUR OF PEN A                                       ESC [ 15 ; a !

    Sets Pen A to colour a, where a is one of the following (assumes
    default palette)

    0 = black         4 = bright green   8 = dark green    12 = dark blue 2
    1 = dark blue 1   5 = med. blue 1    9 = cyan          13 = indigo
    2 = white         6 = yellow        10 = med. blue 2   14 = violet 2
    3 = bright red    7 = violet 1      11 = grey-blue     15 = magenta

        Next Command       'SkyPix Commands' Menu     Table of Contents  

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16- CRC XMODEM TRANSFER                   ESC [ 16 ; m ; a ; b ! filename !

    Files will be sent to whichever directory BRU: is assigned.

    M (MODE)   1 = IFF Brush
               2 = IFF Sound Sample
               3 = FutureSound Sample
              20 = General Purpose (saves to default dir.)

    A & B are the X and Y size of the IFF brush, if that is what is being
    transmitted.

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17- SELECT DISPLAY MODE                                      ESC [ 17 ; m !

    M is 1 for a 3-bitplane display (first 8 colours) or 2 for a 4-bitplane
    display (all 16 colours allowed).  Note that if M is 1, then the second
    8 colours (see Command #15) are disabled.

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18- SET B PEN                                                ESC [ 18 ; b !

    (Sets background pen to colour B [see Command #15] - this is useful
    for allowing ANSI commands to access more colours)

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19- POSITION CURSOR                                      ESC [ 19 ; x ; y !

    (Moves text cursor to X,Y.  Does NOT affect the position of the
    drawing pen)

    NOTE: This is not the same as ESC [ [n] ; [m] H.  In this case x and y
    refer to pixels on the screen and not to rows and columns of text.

        Next Command       'SkyPix Commands' Menu     Table of Contents  

Command #21

21- CONTROLLER RETURN                                ESC [ 21 ; c ; x ; y !

    (This is SENT from the terminal every time a controller is activated -
    c=1 for left button mouse click at coord. x,y ;
    c=2 for menu selection [x is the menu item #, y is ignored])

    SPINY'S NOTE: Due to a bug in JR-COMM 1.02 (which was fixed in 1.02a),
    the ESC code is not sent with this command.  This should be taken into
    consideration when adding mouse control to your own applications.

        Next Command       'SkyPix Commands' Menu     Table of Contents  

Command #22

22- DEFINE A SKYPIX GADGET           ESC [ 22 ; n ; c ; x1 ; y1 ; x2 ; y2 !

    (N is the gadget # (1-20), C is the command # associated with it; X1,Y1
    defines the top left corner and X2,Y2 the lower right.  The gadget
    appears in the colour of Pen A [see Command #15])

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