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Viewport.Open [title [,XPos,YPos [,width,height]]] |
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Description |
Opens a new viewport window or switches the focus to the existing viewport window. |
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Comments |
The Viewport.Open method accepts the following named : |
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Description |
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title |
Specifies a String containing the text to appear in the viewport's caption. |
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XPos, YPos |
Specifies Integer coordinates given in twips indicating the initial position of the upper left corner of the viewport. |
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width,height |
Specifies Integer values indicating the initial width and height of the viewport. |
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If a viewport window is already open, then it is given the focus. Otherwise, a new viewport window is created. Combined with the Print statement, a viewport window is a convenient place to output debugging information. The viewport window is closed when the BasicScript host application is terminated. The following keys work within a viewport window: |
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Key |
Scrolls |
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Up |
Up by one line. |
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Down |
Down by one line. |
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Home |
To the first line in the viewport window. |
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End |
To the last line in the viewport window. |
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PgDn |
The viewport window down by one page. |
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PgUp |
The viewport window up by one page. |
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Ctrl+PgUp |
The viewport window left by one page. |
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Ctrl+PgDn |
The viewport window right by one page. |
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Only one viewport window can be open at any given time. Any scripts with Print statements will output information into the same viewport window. When printing to viewports, the end-of-line character can be any of the following: a carriage return, a line feed, or a carriage-return/line-feed pair. Embedded null characters are printed as spaces. |
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Example |
Sub Main() Viewport.Open "BasicScript Viewport",100,100,500,500 Print "This will be displayed in the viewport window." Sleep 2000 Viewport.Close End Sub |
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See Also |
Viewport.Close (method) |
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