*PF (IMAGE)

*PF

This list control forces generation of the color palette from the file. The color palette is not actually reprogrammed while an image is on the screen.

Since color images generally have vastly different color palettes, displaying several different color images on the screen at the same time rendering most of the images as unintelligible. For the *PF control to work properly, all images should have the same color palette, or the hardware should be re-initialized by specifying *TEXT between each image. If several different IMAGE instructions place the images on the screen at the same time, and the first used the *PF list control, each IMAGE instruction must specify the *PF list control and all images should have the same color palette.

The list controls *PF and *PS are mutually exclusive and the last one specified prior to a variable is the one used.

See Also: List Controls (IMAGE), IMAGE