org.zmpp.vm
Class Abbreviations

java.lang.Object
  org.zmpp.vm.Abbreviations

All Implemented Interfaces:

ZsciiConverter.AbbreviationsTable

public class Abbreviations
extends Object
implements ZsciiConverter.AbbreviationsTable

This class represents a view to the abbreviations table. The table starts at the predefined address within the header and contains pointers to ZSCII strings in the memory map. These pointers are word addresses as opposed to all other addresses in the memory map, therefore the actual value has to multiplied by two to get the real address.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Wei-ju Wu

Constructor Summary

Abbreviations(MemoryReadAccess map, int address)
Constructor.

Method Summary

int	getWordAddress(int entryNum) The abbreviation table contains word addresses, so read out the pointer and multiply by two

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Abbreviations

public Abbreviations(MemoryReadAccess map,
                     int address)

Constructor.

Parameters:

map - the memory map

address - the start address of the abbreviations table

Method Detail

getWordAddress

public int getWordAddress(int entryNum)

The abbreviation table contains word addresses, so read out the pointer and multiply by two

Specified by:

getWordAddress in interface ZsciiConverter.AbbreviationsTable

Parameters:

entryNum - the entry index in the abbreviations table

Returns:

the word address