drawlater - makes axes children invisible.
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") .
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();
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Djalel ABDEMOUCHE