CRT Related Statements

There are several statements that affect the CRT. Consult the Reference Manual or use the HELP statement to obtain more information on each of these statements.

Statement	What It Does
ALPHA ON/OFF	Controls ALPHA screen visibility
ALPHA HEIGHT	Sets the number of lines in ALPHA screen
ALPHA PEN	Sets the ALPHA display color
CLEAR LINE	Clears the keyboard input line
CLEAR SCREEN	Clears the ALPHA display
CLS	Abbreviation for CLEAR SCREEN
DUMP ALPHA	Prints the contents of the ALPHA display
GRAPHICS ON/OFF	Controls graphics screen visibility
KBD LINE PEN	Sets the color of the input line
MERGE ALPHA	Enables all planes for Alpha and Graphics
PRINT PEN	Sets the output area and display line color
RUNLIGHT ON/OFF	Controls run indicator visibility
SEPARATE ALPHA	Simulates independent alpha and graphics

These statements affect the softkey menus:

Statement	What It Does
EDIT KEY	Edits a softkey macro
KBD CMODE ON/OFF	Changes softkey labels to match HP keyboards
KEY LABELS ON/OFF	Controls the display of the softkey labels
KEY LABELS PEN	Sets the color for the softkey labels
LOAD KEY	Loads softkey macros from a file
ON/OFF KEY	Defines an event branch for a softkey
SCRATCH KEY	Deletes softkey macros
SET KEY	Defines one or more softkey macros
SYSTEM KEY	Displays the System Softkeys Menu
USER KEYS	Displays the specified User Softkey Menu