Clear screen cls

[benbaker7]

In gw basic, cls does exactly that. Picaxe basic doesn't seem to support cls, although cr and lf are supported. Is there a work around?

 

[westaust55]

In gw basic, cls does exactly that. Picaxe basic doesn't seem to support cls, although cr and lf are supported. Is there a work around?

Which display are you seeking to clear?

for the 16x2 serial (i2c) AXE033 display for example send:
254,1,255
see manual page 7:

https://picaxe.com/docs/axe033.pdf

or

is it the PE6 output display window you are trying to clear?

 

[bpowell]

Yeah, it really depends on the display interface ... if you want to clear an ANSI interface, you can use:

sertxd ("\033c")

And that'll send a clear-screen command to the terminal. This works for me on PUTTY. Doesn't work on the PICAXE built-in serial monitor; for the PICAXE serial monitor you'll want to:

sertxd (0x0c)

And then In "Settings" of your terminal, Special Control Code Functions, and select the "Clear Screen on FF [0C]" option. You *may* also want to ensure Settings > "Display non ASCII as HEX" is de-selected to make it look cleaner.

 

[inglewoodpete]

You could put some code that does what you want in a macro called CLS and then use CLS in your program.