From 0198be6ddaee575c9991699ef951f6a60e9f2f5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peli de Halleux <pelikhan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:00:22 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] add screen mode to auto clear screen between modes (#486)

---
 libs/screen/targetoverrides.ts | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libs/screen/targetoverrides.ts b/libs/screen/targetoverrides.ts
index e4e0fe40..75cd1d1b 100644
--- a/libs/screen/targetoverrides.ts
+++ b/libs/screen/targetoverrides.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ namespace _screen_internal {
 namespace brick {
     const textOffset = 4;
     const lineOffset = 2;
+    enum ScreenMode {
+        None,
+        ShowLines,
+        Image,
+        Custom
+    }
+    let screenMode = ScreenMode.None;
     export let font = image.font8;
 
     /**
@@ -50,6 +57,11 @@ namespace brick {
     //% help=brick/show-string
     //% line.min=1 line.max=10
     export function showString(text: string, line: number) {
+        if (screenMode != ScreenMode.ShowLines) {
+            screenMode = ScreenMode.ShowLines;
+            screen.fill(0);
+        }
+
         // line indexing starts at 1.
         line = (line - 1) >> 0;
         const nlines = lineCount();
@@ -98,6 +110,7 @@ namespace brick {
     //% help=brick/show-image
     export function showImage(image: Image, duration: number = 400) {
         if (!image) return;
+        screenMode = ScreenMode.Image;
         screen.fill(0);
         screen.drawImage(image, 0, 0);
         if (duration > 0)
@@ -111,6 +124,8 @@ namespace brick {
     //% help=brick/show-ports blockGap=8
     //% weight=10 group="Screen"
     export function showPorts() {
+        screenMode = ScreenMode.Custom;
+
         const col = 44;
         const lineHeight8 = image.font8.charHeight + 2;
         clearScreen();