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BLOAD and BSAVE Statements Example
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' This example draws a magenta cube inside a white box and then uses the
' BSAVE statement to store the drawing in the file MAGCUBE.GRH. The BLOAD
' statement is used to retrieve and display the drawing.
 
' To try this example:
' 1. Choose New Project from the File menu
' 2. Copy the code example below to the code window
' 3. Press F5 to run the example
 
 DIM Cube(1 TO 675)                    ' Declaration
 CLS                                   ' Clear the screen
 SCREEN 1
 LINE (140, 25)-(140 + 100, 125), 3, B ' Draw a white box
 
' Draw the outline of a magenta cube inside the box.
 DRAW "C2 BM140,50 M+50,-25 M+50,25 M-50,25"
 DRAW "M-50,-25 M+0,50 M+50,25 M+50,-25 M+0,-50 BM190,75 M+0,50"
 GET (140, 25)-(240, 125), Cube        ' Save the drawing in the array Cube
 
' Set segment to the segment of the array named Cube and store the drawing
' in the file MAGCUBE.GRH. Note: 2700 is the number of bytes in Cube
' (4 bytes per array element * 675).
 
 DEF SEG = VARSEG(Cube(1))
 BSAVE "MAGCUBE.GRH", VARPTR(Cube(1)), 2700
 LOCATE 20, 10
 PRINT "This image saved in file MAGCUBE.GRH"
 PRINT "Press any key."
 DO WHILE INKEY$ = ""
 LOOP
 CLS
 LOCATE 20, 10                         ' Display the saved image
 BLOAD "MAGCUBE.GRH", VARPTR(Cube(1))
 PRINT "This image loaded from MAGCUBE.GRH."
 DEF SEG                               ' Restore default Basic segment
 PUT (80, 10), Cube                    ' Put the drawing on the screen