The foreground at and background at functions are used to find out the current foreground or background color of a specific character position in a colored textual region. They can be used with non-colored textual regions as well; in this case, they will return the same values returned by the foreground of and background of functions.

 

Each function returns an integer value associated with the color of the background or foreground of the character at the specified line and column; for example:

 

response to News

    copy foreground at column 1 line 3 char

        of InfoWindow to ForeColor

    copy background at column xcoord line ycoord char

        of News to SelectedColor

 

Note that these built-in functions ignore emphasis, since that emphasize action statement affects only the appearance of the text, and not the internally-stored color attribute.