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- CHAPTER 4
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- TESTING THE COLOR CODES
- Type the following next to the A> Prompt, like this:
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- W <Press Enter key.>
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- The monitor screen will show a white-lettered prompt.
- Now, type in BB for blue background, like this:
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- BB <Press Enter key.>
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- The screen color will turn blue.
- You should have white letters on a blue background.
- ▀ Type these two colors:
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- Y RB <Press Enter key>
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- For yellow letters on a red background.
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- Try other combinations. Either color can be first.
- You have 64 possible color combinations. Try various
- combinations and select the ones you like.
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- SOME GOOD COLOR COMBINATIONS ARE:
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- ▀ W BB (White letters on blue screen)
- ▀ Y RB (Yellow on red background)
- ▀ W YB (White on yellow background)
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- NOTE: The yellow background color on some Monitors may
- not give a true yellow background color. It may look more of
- a reddish-brown.
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- MAKING A PRINT-OUT COPY OF YOUR MENU
- If you would like a print-out copy of your Menu use the
- "Type" command and add the "Prn" for print. For example, to
- make a copy of the Menu 2L you would type the following next
- to the A> Prompt, like this:
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- Type 2L.Bat >Prn <Press Enter key.>
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- Your printer will make you a copy of Menu 2L showing the
- one and two -lettered codes.
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- USING THE COLOR CODES
- Adding background color first, gives better contrast
- between letters and background.
- Start with the background color, then add the different colors
- for the letters: for example, start by using a Red background,
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- RB <Press Enter key.>
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- The screen will turn red.
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- Now start to type in different colors for the letters,
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- B <Press Enter key.>
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- You should now see the A> Prompt turn Blue.
- Try this one:
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- BLB <Press Enter key.>
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- Screen turns black. Now, add yellow letters.
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- Y <Press Enter key.>
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- The screen displays yellow letters on a black background.
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- ANOTHER EXAMPLE
- Type Dir and press Enter key. When the directory appears
- on the screen all of the lettering will be yellow and
- the background will be black.
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- HERE'S MORE!
- If you use the same color for the background and the lettering,
- the color of the Prompt may not be visible.
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- The best way to make the background and foreground
- colors blend is to clear the screen with the CLS command
- or your OFF command, so that you will have a black
- and white monitor. Enter the background first, and then
- add the letters. With most monitors, the blend is perfect
- and no Prompt is visible.
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- The Off command is in a Batch File that
- is written like this:
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- Copy Con Off.Bat
- Prompt $e[0m $p$g
- Cls
- Press F6 key, the press Enter key.
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- If you can't find your A> Prompt, use your Off command
- to clear the screen.
- The screen should be cleared with the Off command after
- each combination.
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- Press Esc Key and return to Menu.
- Select Chapter 5 "Keyboard Macros".
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