I love such questions, really.
Anyway. Data lets you store data inside the code without to preassign it to a variable. Example
restore pink
read red
read greed
read blue
color red,green,blue
print "hello world"
restore yellow
read red
read greed
read blue
color red,green,blue
print "now somethin completely diffrent :P"
.pink
Data 255,0,255
.yellow
data 255,255,0
theoreticly you could use Data to convert an Image to Data and then create it on the fly. But there's a problem, it will use much more RAM than if you simply load it from the HD.
Data is a very old Basic Command. I guess it comes from the Assembler Languages "Data Segment". In prehistoric times a program had a Text-Segment (machinecode), a data segment (data) and some other segments, and all the segments where limited to 64 Kilobytes due to the 16 Bit adressing methods of those dino-chips. Anyway, Data still may be useful in some cases.
Anyway. Data lets you store data inside the code without to preassign it to a variable. Example
restore pink
read red
read greed
read blue
color red,green,blue
print "hello world"
restore yellow
read red
read greed
read blue
color red,green,blue
print "now somethin completely diffrent :P"
.pink
Data 255,0,255
.yellow
data 255,255,0
theoreticly you could use Data to convert an Image to Data and then create it on the fly. But there's a problem, it will use much more RAM than if you simply load it from the HD.
Data is a very old Basic Command. I guess it comes from the Assembler Languages "Data Segment". In prehistoric times a program had a Text-Segment (machinecode), a data segment (data) and some other segments, and all the segments where limited to 64 Kilobytes due to the 16 Bit adressing methods of those dino-chips. Anyway, Data still may be useful in some cases.