Printing the screen

Now you’ve learned enough to make the LCD screen display text and graphics. At some point, you may decide that you’d like to save a copy of what you see on the screen.

You can make a hard copy of the LCD screen whenever you’d like. To do so, you’ll use one of the specialfunction keys. which are located just above the row of numeric keys on your HX-20 keyboard.

To print a copy of the LCD screen, just hold down the q key (located at the left edge of the keyboard) and press function key q . The HX-20’s built-in printer will activate and print a hard copy of the LCD display. (If m/1/1 does not activate the printer, make sure that the printer has paper in it, and that the PRINTER ON-OFF switch, located just above the H key, is in the ON position.)

Once you’ve printed the screen, you may pull on the paper to b r i n g y o u r p r i n t o u t i n t o v i e w . ( O r y o u m a y h o l d d o w n the [PAPER key for this purpose-but that’s slow, and uses battery power. Pulling on the paper will harm nothing as long as the printer is inactive.)

Note that m/m causes the printer to print a copy of the LCD screen, not the entire virtual screen. If you want hard copy of the entire virtual screen, you must scroll the LCD window through each portion of the virtual screen, and use (cnnl/m to print each portion of the virtual screen that you display in this manner.

TABLE 5-2

Screen Editor Key FunctionsKeyFunction

Move cursor left by one column. Terminates insert mode.

Move cursor right by one column. Terminates insert mode.

Move cursor up by one line. Terminates insert mode.

Move cursor down by one line. Terminates insert mode.

Move cursor left to a multiple of n columns. (Originally, n = 10, but n must be changed with the BASIC scroll command.)