Customizing the SAS Windowing Environment

Customizing Session Workspace, Session Gravity, and Window Sizes under OpenVMS

SAS uses the following resources to determine the size of the session workspace, the gravity of the workspace, and the size of the windows.

Note: SAS requires at least 20 rows and 78 columns of internal window space. If you specify smaller dimensions for the SAS.maxWindowHeight , SAS.maxWindowWidth , SAS.windowHeight , or SAS.windowWidth resource, then SAS defaults to these minimum values. [cautionend]

SAS.awsResizePolicy

controls the policy for resizing the application workspace (AWS) windows as interior windows are added and removed. Possible values include the following:

grow: the AWS will attempt to grow any time an interior window is grown or moved to show all interior windows, but it will not shrink to removed dead areas.
fixed: the AWS window will attempt to size itself to the size of the first interior window and will not attempt any further size changes.

The default is grow.

SAS.maxWindowHeight

specifies the maximum height of a window. The unit of measure is specified by the SAS.windowUnitType resource. The default is 95.

SAS.maxWindowWidth

specifies the maximum width of a window. The unit of measure is specified by the SAS.windowUnitType resource. The default is 95.

SAS.noAWS: [True | False]

controls whether each of your application's windows appears in its own native window rather than in an application workspace (AWS). The default is False, which confines all windows displayed by an application to a single AWS window.

SAS.scrollBarSize

specifies the size of the scroll bars in pixels. The default is 17.

SAS.sessionGravity

specifies in which region of the screen that SAS attempts to place its windows. Possible values include the following:

NorthWestGravity

NorthGravity

NorthEastGravity

WestGravity

CenterGravity

EastGravity

SouthWestGravity

SouthGravity

SouthEastGravity

The default is dynamic, which means that the default value is determined at run time. For example, for the first SAS session that you invoke the default is NorthWestGravity. However, if you invoke a second SAS session while the first session is still running, the default for the second session is NorthEastGravity.

SAS.sessionGravityXOffset

specifies an X (horizontal) offset to be added when SAS attempts to place a window in the gravity region. The default is 0.

SAS.sessionGravityYOffset

specifies a Y (vertical) offset to be added when SAS attempts to place a window in the gravity region. The default is 0.

SAS.windowHeight

specifies the default height of a window. The unit of measure is specified by the SAS.windowUnitType resource. The default is 50.

SAS.windowUnitType

specifies the unit of measure for the SAS.windowWidth , SAS.windowHeight , SAS.maxWindowWidth , and SAS.maxWindowHeight resources. Possible values include the following:

character: specifies the number of rows and columns.
pixel: specifies the number of pixels.
percentage: specifies the percentage of the display.

The default is percentage.

SAS.windowWidth

specifies the default width of a window. The unit of measure is specified by the SAS.windowUnitType resource. The default is 67.

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