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Chapter 10 Display slave


10.1 Overview

The display slave window (Figure 10-1) functions as a dumping ground for information which is too complex to display in other ways in the Library, Browser or other primary windows. It has rudimentary editing abilities so the user can manually adjust the format of displayed information if needed, for example by rearranging a highly nonlinear relation with more than a few variables. Changes to displayed text do not affect the rest of the system in any way.

Figure 10-1

Display slave window

10.2 The File Menu

10.2.1 Print

This option brings up the default print dialog described in the section Utilities. The print command can be used to save the displayed text to a file.

10.2.2 Close window

The option closes the display window.

10.3 The View Menu

10.3.1 Show comments in code

This option controls whether or not comments are displayed when code is displayed as read from source files. This setting is not retroactive; that is code already displayed will not be redisplayed when changing this setting.

When code is displayed in the machine representation, i.e. with equations and set expressions in postfix (reverse polish) notation, comments are never displayed.

10.3.2 Font

This option brings up the standard font setting dialog so you can change the size, style, and font of the characters in the display window.

10.3.3 Open automatically

This option controls whether or not the display slave window opens automatically when it receives information. Sometimes it is easier to send several items to the display and then open it at the end.

10.4 Title line

The title line at the bottom of the window is set by the last client to export something to the display. The user may edit the title, but the next time new information is displayed, these edits will be lost.


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