Utilities

Overview

This documentation specifies various methods of the hsa.Console class which are used in utility.

Console Size

• int hsa.Console.getWidth()
• int hsa.Console.getHeight()

Returns the width and height respectively of the hsa.Console window in pixels.

// set the active colour to red
// (must import java.awt.Color)
c.setColour(Color.RED);
// fill the left half of the screen
c.fillRect(0, 0, c.getWidth()/2, c.getHeight());

Paint Mode

You can use the void hsa.Console.setXORMode(Color c) method to inform the hsa.Console instance that you want any drawn geometry to be XOR’d with the background.

For example, after calling void hsa.Console.setXORMode(Color c), drawing a red rectangle (RGB 255, 0, 0) over a pixel with the RGB colour (255, 255, 255) (white) will result in a pixel with RGB colour (0, 255, 255).

You can then call void hsa.Console.setPaintMode() to return the hsa.Console into paint mode where it will draw over the background.

What Next?

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Check out the documentation on drawing text with hsa.Console here.