Routines
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BF79: Handler: Date Bar
Used by the routine at Game_Initialisation.
Carries out this step while the game is running.
date-bar
Handler_DateBar BF79 LD IX,$BF6E Point IX at the current date at Messaging_CurrentDate and read the day of the week at CurrentDayOfWeek.
BF7D LD A,($9FE1)
BF80 LD HL,$BF59 Use the days of the week strings at Table_DaysOfWeekStrings.
Populate day of the week.
BF83 CALL PopulateDayOfWeek Call PopulateDayOfWeek to write the day of the week.
BF86 INC IX Call ConvertNumberToString to convert number to string.
BF88 LD A,($9FE0)
BF8B CALL ConvertNumberToString
BF8E INC IX Call ConvertNumberToString to convert number to string.
BF90 LD A,($9FDF)
BF93 CALL ConvertNumberToString
BF96 LD A,($9FE2) Write *Messaging_AM_PM to *IX+00.
BF99 LD (IX+$00),A
Now the date bar has been updated, set up printing it to the screen.
BF9C LD HL,$BF6E Load HL with a pointer to Messaging_CurrentDate.
BF9F LD B,$0B Set the length of the date bar in B (0B bytes).
BFA1 JP PrintDateBar Jump ahead to PrintDateBar to print date bar.
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