[ColorForth] Hello World!

[Bob Shafer <bobsh@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had hit upon the same idea, but haven't quite figured out how to display 
the text in that block on the screen. It'd be nice to know, too. I'm kinda 
hoping to do a colorForth based horse bet tracker in time for the Kentucky 
Derby this weekend (just for fun); it'd be nice to display the horses 
(numbers or names) in a column along the left of the screen. I've been 
looking at unPACK in the assembly sources, as well as text (not text1, 
which is what you get when you type "text" into the colorForth editor), and 
I sorta see how it might work. Am I on the right track? It looks like you 
could just put the address of the block on the stack and then start 
unpack'ing characters and emit'ing them, but how do you know when you've 
finished a word? (I'm sure it's relatively obvious to folks who are good at 
reading assembly listings, but I'm not one of those :-).

At 12:53 PM 5/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
> I've noticed the interest people have in getting colorForth to say "Hello
> World".
>
> The facility for doing that is extremely simple. Find an empty block. Edit
> "Hello World" at the top.
>
> I know that's not quite what they have in mind. But it's the way I'd
> generate any sort of display. Format a block with the editor. Fill in
> whatever numbers or graphics are required.
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