Filling drawings - Printable Version

Filling drawings - Printable Version

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Filling drawings - baltasarq - 2025-02-07

There's no function or command "fill", allowing to pass two coordinates and making the computer to fill all delimited pixels with the current color.

Code:
circle 50, 50, 30

fill 50, 50

In the eighties, I used to fill a circle with a for loop:

Code:
circle 50, 50, 30

for i = 1 to 30

    circle 50, 50, i

next i

I suppose I could do something like this for rectangles, as well. This is, however, slow, ugly (certain pixels remain unplotted), and clumsy. Is there an alternate way?
Thanks,

RE: Filling drawings - boriel - 2025-02-08

There is a Fill library. Which actually fills a Drawing using a UDG pattern (not only solid).

See an example here:

https://github.com/boriel-basic/zxbasic/blob/main/examples/spfill.bas

To use UDG you have either to compile with --sinclair or do POKE UInteger 23672, <address of UDG>

There is a thread about this routine here:
https://forum.boriel.com/showthread.php?tid=439

RE: Filling drawings - baltasarq - 2025-02-08

> boriel' Wrote:> There is a Fill library. Which actually fills a Drawing using a UDG pattern (not only solid).

Great!
I looked up the wiki but didn't find anything. I guess I could've looked it up in the forum...

My next question is.., what if you just want solid filling? Do you still have to provide an address to an UDG?

Thanks,

RE: Filling drawings - boriel - 2025-02-09

Yes, define it with 255 (all eight bytes). Since this CHAR already exist in the ROM, you can use a simple
POKE to use that char.