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From: waterman@engg.ucalgary.ca (jason waterman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE:  ascii character size
Message-ID: <9103271019.AA11701@engga>
Date: 27 Mar 91 10:19:09 GMT
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To: handhelds@gac.edu

Hi there!

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking, but I'll try to help.

The standard characters on the stack are displayed in Large
Font (5x9). To display an object in a form smaller than the standard stack size,
you have several options.  

First of all, you could use the DISP and FREEZE commands, to display
characters in medium font (5x7).  These commands are explained in the
Interactive Programs section of the Owner's Manual (Volume II).  

The DISP command allows you to display up to 7 lines on the display.

Secondly, the ->GROB command could be used with the ->LCD command or GORr
command to place the text on the graphics screen.  This allows you to
display characters in Small font (3x5), but the disadvantage is that 
you would have to have your program split up the text you want to display
into the proper number of characters per line and then determine where on
the graphics screen to place those lines, etc.  You get the idea.  This
could possibly slow your program down quite a bit, depending on how much
you wanted to display.


I think that I will write a program to do this within the next few days.
When it's finished, I'll post it.

By the way, the descriptions of the ->GROB and GOR commands can be found
in the Owner's Manual in the "More About Plotting and Graphics Objects"
section in Volume I.

Hope this helps.


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Jason Waterman
The University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Email: waterman@engg.ucalgary.ca
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