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SAVE SCREEN IMAGE SSI Standard Verb Screen Operation
Target =

Saves into a noun a complete screenful of data.
All the text, attributes of color of the text, the currently selected attri-
butes and colors and the cursor position are also saved.
The resulting noun can be DISPLAYed to restore the image to what it was at
the moment SAVE SCREEN IMAGE was called. BEWARE! SAVE SCREEN IMAGE will NOT
save screens painted by programs other than PRAGMA.

SAVE SCREEN IMAGE into the noun NOUN

NOUN must be a noun and will contain all the information to restore the
screen.


SEE ALSO: DISPLAY / SAVE SCREEN WINDOW IMAGE / SAVE SCREEN WINDOW TEXT

SAVE SCREEN IMAGE will put into the destination noun a complete screenfull of data. All of the text of the screen is saved AND all of the attributes and colors of the text are saved as well; plus the currently selected attributes and colors, and the cursor position.

The resulting noun can then be simply DISPLAYed to restore the image to what it was at the moment SAVE SCREEN IMAGE took this photograph. The cursor will be returned to its position at the time the picture was taken. The character attributes and colors that were currently selected at the time the image was saved are also restored (as they may have been different than any of the attributes or colors on the screen at the moment).



 

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