Purpose:

This command will attempt to change the size and the position of a window.

Format:

CHANGEWINDOW [WINDOW] <ROOT|ACTIVE|Drawer name> [[LEFTEDGE] <new left edge position>][[TOPEDGE] <new top edge position>][[WIDTH] <new window width>][[HEIGHT] <new window height>]

Template:

CHANGEWINDOW WINDOW,LEFTEDGE/N,TOPEDGE/N,WIDTH/N,HEIGHT/N

WINDOW

Either ROOT" to resize/move the Workbench root window (where volume icons and AppIcons live), ACTIVE" to change the currently active Workbench window or the fully qualified name of a drawer window to change. Note that the drawer window must already be open.

If no WINDOW parameter is specified, this command will try to operate on the currently active Workbench window.

LEFTEDGE

New left edge window position.

TOPEDGE

New top edge window position.

WIDTH

New window width.

HEIGHT

New window height.

Errors:

10 - If the named window cannot be changed; this can also happen if you specified ACTIVE" as the window name and none of the Workbench windows is currently active. The error code will be placed in the WORBENCH.LASTERROR variable.

Result:

-

Notes:

If you choose to have a window changed that is neither the root nor the active window you must make sure that the window name is given as a fully qualified path name. For example Work:" is a fully qualified name, and so is SYS:Utilities". Devs/Printers" would not be a fully qualified name. A fully qualified name always contains the name of an assignment, a volume or a device.