Re: Applesoft BASIC coding

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

Miles Attacca wrote:
> My first issue is with the four lines of text still available at the
> bottom of the screen in GR lo-res mode. I'd ideally like to display a
> few lines of text naming the program and instructing the (imaginary!)
> end-user how to BREAK out of the screensaver, but then have it
> disappear after a few seconds so it won't slowly burn in and defeat the
> point. The only solution I've found for this so far would be an
> incremented variable that goes up along with the plotting before the
> text is finally cleared, but I'd ideally like to find a time-dependent
> function to do this in a more elegant fashion.

Your other option here is to scroll the text displayed, or display it
periodically.

Cheers,
Nick.