HELP VED_WINDOW Adrian Howard, June 1991 Revised: Jason Handby, July 1991 <ENTER> window [N] <ENTER> window NAME VALUE [NAME VALUE]... <ENTER> window next NAME VALUE [NAME VALUE]... <ENTER> window default NAME VALUE [NAME VALUE]... Simple interface to changing XVed window attributes. This command is used to set attributes of VED windows. In terminal versions of VED, only the first form of the command is available. The first form of the command sets the length of the current window to N lines. eg. window 20 will change the size of the window to 20 lines. If N is the "?" character then the current size of the window will be reported on the status line. If N is absent the window size is set to the current value of -vedstartwindow- (ie, half the size of the screen). Note: When the terminal screen is split to display two buffers, this command will not automatically change the size of the other buffer in VED, which can cause strange side effects unless you change its size manually. The other forms of the command are used to alter the values of various XVed window attributes. For example, <ENTER> window statusForeground white statusBackground black sets the status line foreground colour to white and the status line background colour to black in the current window. Typing "next" or "default" just after the '<ENTER> window' command will apply the changes to the -nextWindow- or the -defaultWindow- instead of the -currentWindow- (See REF *XVED for details). For example, to set the default background for windows to blue, use: <ENTER> window default background blue Replacing VALUE by the "?" character will report the current value of the NAME attribute. For example, the following command will report the x and y coordinates of the current window. <ENTER> window x ? y ? Some useful attributes that you can change are: numRows - length of the window in rows numColumns - width of the window in columns foreground - foreground colour background - background colour font - font used by the text of the window An extended status line interface to XVed application and window attributes can be found in HELP *VED_XVED -- Related Documentation ---------------------------------------------- REF *VED_WINDOW - Information on the normal VED -ved_window-. REF *XVED - Detailed overview of XVed HELP *VED_XVED - More complex status line interface to XVed resource settings --- C.x/x/ved/help/ved_window ---------------------------------------- --- Copyright University of Sussex 1991. All rights reserved. ----------