Clear

The Clear command either clears the whole display window, or specific shapes or text displayed on it.

Clearing the display window

This command clears the display window, leaving it with a white background:

Clear Display

You can also choose a different background colour, as in this example:

Clear Display To Black

The background colour can be Black, Red, Green, Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Cyan, Purple, PaleGreen, PaleBlue, Orange, Pink, White, Maroon, Olive, DarkGreen, Teal, DarkBlue, Purple, Grey or a custom colour defined using HTML hexadecimal colour code, as in this example which leaves the display window with a blue-grey background:

Clear Display To #5B6C7F

Clearing shapes and text

You can clear shapes or text positioned at a specified X and Y coordinate, as shown in this example where shapes and text are displayed, then, after a short time, cleared from the display using Clear commands:

Draw Line From -100, 0 To 100, 0
Draw Circle With 25 Pixels Radius Centred At -100, 0
Draw Rectangle 50 Pixels Wide And 50 Pixels High Centred At 100, 0
Write "Now you see them..." Centred At 0, -50

Wait For 2 Seconds

-- Now you don't!
Clear Line At -100, 0
Clear Circle At -100, 0
Clear Rectangle At 100, 0
Clear Writing At 0, -50

You can also refer to coordinates stored in previously defined variables:

Clear Line At X, Y