Window Properties

Common properties for all windows

DRAWSIZE   The size of the drawing area as a two-element list of the width and the height.
POSITION   The position of the upper left corner of the window as a two-element list of x and y coordinates.
SIZE   The outer size of the window as a two-element list of the width and the height. Note that this size includes the window frame and thus is larger than the value of the DRAWSIZE property.
TITLE Graphics The contents of the title bar.
VISIBLE TRUE Set to FALSE to hide the window.

Additional Listener and Editor Window properties

FONT Courier 10 0 The font used. This font cannot be set to variable-width fonts; an attempt to set a variable-width font causes a Courier font to be set.
MAXIMIZED FALSE Set to TRUE to maximize the window.

Additional Output Window properties

CHANNEL   The channel number for I/O (read only).
ESCAPE ~ The escape character for controlling the position of the next output (see below).
FONT Courier 10 0 The font used. This font cannot be set to variable-width fonts; an attempt to set a variable-width font causes a Courier font to be set.
MAXIMIZED FALSE Set to TRUE to maximize the window.

Output windows recognize a few basic commands which allow a certain amount of cursor control. A command begins with the defined escape character, followed by a command character. Additonally, a few special control characters are recognized.

~L Moves left one character. At the beginning of a line, moves to the last character of the previous line.
~R Moves right one character. At the end of a line, moves the the beginning of the next line.
~U Moves to the previous line.
~D Moves to the next line.
~B Moves to the beginning of the current line.
~E Moves to the end of the current line.
~H or ~A Moves to the beginning of the text.
~Z Moves to the end of the text.
~I Toggles between insert and overtype mode (default is insert mode).
~C Erases the contents of the window.
CHAR 8 Deletes the character to the left.
CHAR 9 Advances to the next tab stop (see the TAB system variable).
CHAR 127 Deletes the character to the right.

Additional Graphics Window properties

BGCOLOR 255 255 255 The background color.
BGPATTERN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The background pattern.
MAXIMIZED FALSE Set to TRUE to maximize the window.
WRAPMODE WRAP The wrapping mode. See FENCE, WRAP, and WINDOW.

Additional Color Picker Window properties

COLOR   The currently selected color.

Additional Toolbox Window properties

PANEL   The name of the currently selected tool box panel.

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