en.
These „embellishment functions“ are based on the box operating mode; the SCREEN Editor
changes to this mode when you press function key F2. The normal cursor is not displayed on
the screen in this mode, a small rectangle surrounded by a border - the box - is displayed and
you can use the cursor keys to move the box around the screen. Pressing the <Ins> key an-
chors the top left hand corner of the box, thus allowing you to move the bottom right hand
corner of the box by using the cursor keys. This enables you to reduce or increase the size of
the box as you require.
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The next time the <Ins> key is pressed this undoes the anchoring of the box and the entire box
can be moved around the screen by using the cursor keys. You can therefore use the <Ins> ke
to toggle between these two types of operation as often as you w
h .
The ability to do all this is pointless unless you can permanently „imprint“ the box on the scr
n. This is achieved by pressing the <Del> key. When you move the box again you will see
that a duplicate of the box remains in its original position.
You can use function key F6 to switch between a single and double border for the box. The
box also acts like a paintbrush and you can use it to paint text and different areas of the screen in var
ous colo
s .
Pressing F9 once or several times switches the background colour and F10 is used to switch
the foreground colour (= text colour) and you can see the result inside the border of the box immediat
y .
Exam
le:
Let us assume that you set your box for a white edge and a blue background. The procedure to
generate a blue box with a white border and white text is as follows:
1st step: print box <Del>
2nd step: colour in box <F7>
3rd step: switch over to text mode <F2>
4th step: write text inside box
Obviously, you can change the colour of text which has previously been typed in by position-
ing an appropriately prepared box around the text and pressing F7, thus causing the area en-
closed by the box to assume the new colour combination.
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You can use function key F5 to add the „flashing“ attribute to your selected colour combination
and set entire areas of the screen or only individual words to flash at a steady r
e .
When working in box mode, key F7 can also be used to delete the screen area enclosed by the
ox, i.e. to colour in the backgro
