Using Window Handles

Specific window properties can be accessed through the user of Pseudo Window object handles. The following properties are supported:

Graphic Mode Only
Pseudo-Property	Description	Access
'Caption$	Caption for the window	R/W
'Height	Window height in pixels	R/W
'Hwnd	Window handle	R
'Left	Window left most position in pixels	R/W
'LookAndFeel	Window style (2D-Windows 3.1, 3D-Win95, 4D-XP)	R/W
'MessageBar$	MessageBar segment 0 for the window (v10.10)	R/W
'Parent	Parent Window number	R
'Top	Window topmost pixel location	R/W
'Visible	0 if window is hidden else 1	R/W
'Width	Window size in pixels	R/W

Text and Graphic Mode
Pseudo-Property	Description	Access
'BackColour	Background colour	R/W
'Columns	Columns wide	R
'CtlName	"Window"	R
'CurrentColumn	Current column number	R/W
'CurrentLine	Current line number	R/W
'DefaultBackColour	Default background colour	R/W
'DefaultTextColour	Default text colour	R/W
'LeftColumn	Current leftmost column for 'Scrolled' window	R
'Lines	Number of lines high	R
'TextColour	Current text colour	R/W
'TopLine	Current top offset lines for 'Scrolled' window	R

Example:

Sysobj=new("*SYSTEM")
WdwHdl=SysObj'Window(0) ! This will yield a pseudo handle to the current window
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for I=1 to WdwHdl'lines
     print @(0,I),"Line:",I
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