Screen Text Reader

• Example

SP4CEBAR 2025-04-05 12:37 (Edited)

This reads text shown on screen and saves it to a variable

Whenever the FONT command is used be sure to change the FONT_SPACE_CHARACTER variable accordingly (they must be the same value).

Subprograms in this library:

• SCRE_GET_TEXT_AREA( Y_START, Y_END, SCREEN_TEXT$ )
  • reads the lines Y_START to Y_END from the screen and outputs them in the SCREEN_TEXT$ variable, It places new line characters (CHR$( 10 )) after each line.
• SCRE_READ_LINE( CURRENT_LINE, LINE_TEXT$ )
  • reads a single line at index "CURRENT_LINE" and saves it to the LINE_TEXT$ variable.
• SCRE_READ_SYMBOL( CELL_X, CELL_Y, SYMBOL$ )
  • reads a single symbol at screen coordinates CELL_X and CELL_Y and saves it to the SYMBOL$ variable.
• SCRE_CHAR_TO_ASCII( CHARACTER, ASCII_CODE )
  • converts the cell-character code "CHARACTER" to the ascii code "ASCII_CODE"

was8bit 2025-04-05 12:57

Clever :)

SP4CEBAR 2025-04-05 13:28

Thank you!

SP4CEBAR 2025-04-05 13:30 (Edited)

Update 1 and 2

1. added more metadata to the library header comment: the version and the NX ID of this webpage as "(DISTRIBUTED UNDER NX PROGRAM ID: 3690)"
2. Fixed a typo in update 1

wryhode 2025-04-10 06:02

cool! now we need a tts library

SP4CEBAR 2025-04-10 08:45

there is, but I can't seem to find it anymore, I remember the name was something like "remyn speaky thingy" but none of these keywords lead anywhere

SP4CEBAR 2025-04-10 08:49

it was named "Remjin Spyky Thyngy"

SP4CEBAR 2025-04-10 08:51

found it! here