Structured System variables -- ^$DISPLAY

^$DI[SPLAY]

Introduced in the 1995 ANSI M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer's Interface standard.

This structured system variable provides information about the displays that are currently known to the M[UMPS] process.

WRITE !,"Currently known displays:"
SET D=""
FOR  SET D=$ORDER(^$DISPLAY(D)) QUIT:D=""  DO
. WRITE !,D
. SET K=$DATA(^$DISPLAY(D,"KEYBOARD"))
. IF K WRITE ?30,"has a keyboard attached.",!
. SET P=$DATA(^$DISPLAY(D,"PEN"))
. IF P WRITE ?30,"has a pen attached.",!
. SET M=$DATA(^$DISPLAY(D,"PTR"))
. IF M WRITE ?30,"has a mouse attached.",!
. SET C=^$DISPLAY(D,"COLORTYPE")
. SET N=^$DISPLAY(D,"SPECTRUM")
. WRITE ?30,"This display shows ",C," colors"
. WRITE " in ",N," shades."
. SET W=^$DISPLAY(D,"PLATFORM")
. WRITE !?30,"Windowing system is ",W,"."
. SET U=^$DISPLAY(D,"UNITS")
. SET S=^$DISPLAY(D,"SIZE")
. WRITE !?30,"Area is ",$PIECE(S,",",1)," ",U
. WRITE " by ",$PIECE(S,",",2)," ",U,"."
. WRITE !?30,"Child-windows will inherit:"
. SET BACK=^$DISPLAY(D,"BCOLOR")
. SET FORE=^$DISPLAY(D,"FCOLOR")
. WRITE !?30,"Background color ",BACK"
. WRITE ", foreground color ",FORE,".",!
. SET APP=^$DISPLAY(D,"COLOR")
. WRITE !?30,"Application area color: ",APP
. QUIT

In addition, information about displayable fonts is available:

SET F="",T="TYPEFACE"
FOR  SET F=$ORDER(^$DISPLAY(D,T,F) QUIT:F=""  DO
. WRITE !,"Font face is ",F,": "
. SET ANY=0
. SET S=""
. FOR  SET S=$ORDER(^$DISPLAY(D,T,F,S)) QUIT:S=""  DO
. . WRITE $SELECT(ANY:", ",1:" size(s) ")
. . WRITE:$X>60 !?10 WRITE S SET ANY=1
. . QUIT
. QUIT
QUIT


This document is © Ed de Moel, 1995-2005.
It is part of a book by Ed de Moel that is published under the title "M[UMPS] by Example" (ISBN 0-918118-42-5).
Printed copies of the book are no longer available.

This document describes the various special (system) variables that are defined in the M[UMPS] language standard (ANSI X11.1, ISO 11756).

The information in this document is NOT authoritative and subject to be modified at any moment.
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