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GETTING ACQUAINTED
GETTING DIALOG OUT OF THE WAY OF GRAPHICS
Suppose you want to see 22 lines of dialog at a time, but still want to see the
graphics behind it. Here's how you can do that:
Increase the size of the dialog area to 22 lines by entering
:
DALINES 22
Notice that the dialog area now covers most of the screen, including the
graphics.
Now,
change the dialog area text color and make the background
transparent
,
then issue STATUS to see the effect:
DAINDEX 3,0,0
STATUS
As the status list scrolls up
,
the graphics images show through the dialog area, as
though the dialog text were written on a pane of clear glass in the foreground
.
The
display should now look similar to Figure 2-5
.
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Figure 2-5. Display With Transparent Dialog Area.
Another way to get dialog out of the way of graphics is to press the Dialog
key,
as
you did
in
Exercise
3.
Do that again.
Press
the
Dialog
key.
The dialog area disappears and the graphics image is completely visible
.
This
is
useful when you want a copy of the graphics that is free of dialog text.
(Section
3
tells you how to make a copy.) After the copy
is
done, you would make the dialog
area reappear by pressing the Dialog key again
.
Go ahead and do that now.
Press
the
Dialog
key.
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