STRIP

Syntax: STRIP [#ch,] colour
Location: QL ROM

Whenever a character is printed to the QL screen, it is made up of two components - the character itself which appears in the current INK colour, and the rectangular block on which the character has been formed. The latter is known as the 'strip' of the character and the size of this strip depends on the current character size and spacing (see CSIZE).

Normally, when you set the PAPER colour of a window, the character STRIP is set to the same colour.

STRIP allows you to alter the colour of the character background in the specified window (default #1).

CROSS-REFERENCE:
PAPER also sets the STRIP colour.
CSIZE and CHAR_INC allow you to alter the spacing between characters. 
INK contains details of standard and composite colours. 
See also INVERSE which can also prove useful.
