Description

This function can be used to not display on the screen all graphics objects called by its basic drawing commands. Their Visibility property is set to "off" .

It can specially be used with the drawnow function.

To return to the visible mode, it will be necessary to set a Visibility property of the current figure entity to "on" . It's equival to make drawnow("all").

Examples

  set("figure_style","new") // select entity based graphics
  drawlater(); 
  xfarc(.25,.55,.1,.15,0,64*360);
  xfarc(.55,.55,.1,.15,0,64*360);
  xfrect(.3,.8,.3,.2); 
  xfrect(.2,.7,.5,.2);  
  xfrect(.32,.78,.1,.1);
  xfrect(.44,.78,.14,.1);
  xfrect(-.2,.4,1.5,.8);
  xstring(0.33,.9,"A Scilab Car");    
  a=get("current_axes");
  a.children(1).font_size=4;
  a.children(1).font_style=4;  
  a.children(1).foreground=5;
  a.children(3).foreground=8;
  a.children(4).foreground=8; 
  a.children(5).foreground=17;
  a.children(6).foreground=17; 
  a.children(7).foreground=25;
  a.children(8).foreground=25;
  xclick();drawnow();
 
  

See also

Author

Djalel ABDEMOUCHE