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<textarea>

This element allows you to create or delete a window on the display, and change the current window.

  • Specify "number", "x", "y", "width", and "height" to create a new window.
  • Specify "true/1" for "destroy" to destroy the window specified by "number".
  • To change the current window to another window, specify only "number".

Attribute

number

Attribute value

Description

"1" to "4"

Specifies the window number.

x

Attribute value

Description

"1" to "44"

Specifies the x-coordinate on the customer display of window origin.

y

Attribute value

Description

"1" to "19"

Specifies the y-coordinate on the customer display of window origin.

width

Attribute value

Description

"1" to "44"

Specifies the window width.

height

Attribute value

Description

"1" to "19"

Specifies the window height.

scrollmode

Attribute value

Description

"overwrite"
  • When the current display position is at the rightmost position of the upper line, move the display position to the leftmost position of the lower line.
  • When the current display position is at the rightmost position of the lower line, move the display position to the leftmost position of the upper line.
  • The character currently displayed at the target position will be overwritten.

"v_scroll"
  • When the current display position is at the rightmost position of the upper line, move the display position to the leftmost position of the lower line.
  • When the current display position is at the rightmost position of the lower line, moves the characters currently on the lower line to the upper line, erases the contents of the lower line, and then moves the display position to the leftmost position of the upper line.

"h_scroll"
  • When a new character is displayed while the current display position is at the rightmost position, shifts the entire line by one character to the left and displays the new character at the rightmost position.
  • Does not feed the line.

destroy

Attribute value

Description

"true" / "1"

Destroys the window specified by "number"

"false" / "0"

Not destroy

Supplementary explanation

  • When the number, x, y, width, and height attributes are specified, and the destroy attribute is set to true/1, window creation processing is not executed, nor is deletion processing.
  • After using <textarea>, the origin position of the x and y attributes of <text> and <cursor> appear in the top left of the window set in <textarea>.
  • This operation does not occur when column/row fixed mode is set in <screen>.
 

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