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SCREEN TILES WIDTH

This function allows you to obtain the width of the current screen, expressed in tiles. A tile is a box of pixels that can be addressed elementary by a specific screen code. Normally, it is used in "text mode", since each box is a character. The width depends on the currently selected graphics mode, and it can change at runtime.

There is also a compile-level function for this keyword, which is called when the value is used to initialize a constant. In this case, the value is that taken from inspecting the instructions at the time of compilation.

It can also be abbreviated to the statement TILES WIDTH.

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SYNTAX

 = SCREEN TILES WIDTH


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  • id : identifier
  • type : datatype
  • v : value
  • "..." : string
  • [...] : optional

EXAMPLE

 currentWidth = SCREEN TILES WIDTH


ABBREVIATION: Sc Tls Wd

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In order to reduce space you can use this abbreviation for this instruction: 

SCREEN TILES WIDTH ↔ Sc Tls Wd

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