Window and Display Features |
Window Options
Window options control the attributes of the window.
The following options are valid in the WINDOW statement:
- CMNDLINE=name
- names a character variable in which the
command line entered by the user is stored.
- COLOR=operand
- specifies the background color for the window.
The operand can be either a quoted character literal
or the name of a character variable containing the color.
The valid values are BLACK, GREEN,
MAGENTA, RED, CYAN, GRAY, and BLUE.
The default is BLACK.
- COLUMNS=operand
- specifies the starting number of columns of the window.
The operand can be either a literal number,
a variable name, or an expression in parentheses.
The default is 78.
- ICOLUMN=operand
- specifies the initial column position
of the window on the display screen.
The operand can be either a
literal number or a variable name.
The default is column 1.
- IROW=operand
- specifies the initial row position
of the window on the display screen.
The operand can be either a
literal number or a variable name.
The default is row 1.
- MSGLINE=operand
- specifies the message to be displayed on the
standard message line when the window is made active.
The operand is a quoted character literal or the
name of a character variable containing the message.
- ROWS=operand
- determines the starting number of rows of the window.
The operand is either a literal number,
the name of a variable containing the number, or
an expression in parentheses yielding the number.
The default is 23 rows.
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