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[roberthazelby]

Evening all,

After a few weeks away from AMOS Pro I've spent the last couple of hours re-familiarising myself with the code I've written, and have started adding a few bits to my (currently, rather laughable) program.

My program starts of with a nice vertical text scroller, with a rainbow effect at the top and bottom of the screen. The script has been taken from Phil South's "Mastering AMOS" book. I've made a small change, so that the scroller only runs once, before hopping out of that routine.

So far, so good.

Once that's done I then want to display a non-scrolling options screen (Title, "Press fire to start", and detailing a few options).

This displays fine, along with a nice randomly generated star field (I may remove these) and a mod kicks in.

Everything looks good. However, the rainbow effect is still present at the top and bottom of the screen.

I've tried putting a RAINBOW DEL in once the scroller has finished, but this doesn't seem to do anything.

I'm certain I'm doing something daft, but what, I don't know.

Any suggestions?

[Hungry Horace]

it's cheating, but you could replace it with a "rainbow" which is just black->black (or whatever colour you want)

I suspect it has something to do with it not being removed from the overscan areas, but i cant really be sure.

[Lonewolf10]

Are the dimensions of both screens the same? Are you using the same screen number for both screens?

The reason I ask these questions is because a larger screen (e.g. 300 pixels high) will have the top and bottom bits showing if a smaller screen (e.g. 200 pixels high) is created infront of it. If you are using the same screen number for both screens this won't be an issue.

You can hide and unhide screens as required (they remain in memory, but are not displayed) using, IIRC, the Screen Hide <SCREEN_NUMBER> and Screen Show <SCREEN_NUMBER>. If you don't use a screen number with these commands all active screens will be affected.


Regards,
Lonewolf10