get_window

Context: windows

Synopsis

Retrieves the attribute value(s) of the window.

Syntax

get_window()
get_window(id)
get_window(id, attribute)

Description

The function arguments.

Argument	Description
id	A ChipsId structure identifying the item, or a string containing the name of the object.
attribute	The name of the attribute to retrieve, such as 'display' or 'bgcolor'.

The get_window command returns a structure containing all the attribute values of the window. To retrieve the value of a specific attribute, provide the attribute name and the id or ChipsId of the object.

Some values are set to "None" in the returned structure. These entries generally correspond to attributes which may only be modified at creation time, such as the object id.

Please see the section "Window Preferences and Attributes" below the examples for a list of the window attributes.

Note that the window title is not included in the attributes. In order to get that value, use the get_window_title command.

Advanced Functions

The module of advanced ChIPS functions contains other commands for retrieving attribute values (refer to "ahelp chips" for information on loading the module):

get_window_bgcolor
get_window_redraw

Examples

Example 1

chips> add_window()
chips> print(get_window())

A window is created and becomes current. Calling get_window with no argument returns all the attributes of the object.

Example 2

chips> get_window("win1", "bgcolor")

get_window is called to return the "bgcolor" attribute of win1.

Example 3

chips> add_window()
chips> add_window( "id=M33")
chips> id = ChipsId()
chips> id.window = "win1"
chips> print(get_window(id))

A ChipsId structure is created and the id.window field is set to "win1". get_window is called with the ChipsId.

Example 4

chips> wi = get_window()
chips> print(wi)

Retrieve a structure containing the attribute values of the current window and store the results in "wi".

Window Preferences and Attributes

The attributes associated with windows are given in the following table, where the "Set?" column refers to whether the attribute can be changed using the set_window() command. To change the window preference settings prepend "window." to the attribute name.

Attribute	Description	Options	Default	Set?
bgcolor	Background Color of the window	name or hex; see the Color section of "ahelp chipsopt"	default: white in the ChIPS window, black on printout	Yes
display	Flag indicating whether the window should be rendered	see the Booleans section of "ahelp chipsopt"	true	Yes
geom	A geometry hint to the window manager to say where the ChIPS window should be created (this setting may be ignored, depending on the window manager in use). The format is either a blank string or a string containing two signed integers such as "+100+50", "+0+20", or "+0+0".			No
grid.color	The color to draw the grid lines.	name or hex; see the Color section of "ahelp chipsopt"	default	No
grid.scale	Where should the grid lines be drawn?	One of quarterinch, halfinch, cm, or normalized (spacing of a tenth of the window width/height). These can also be specified as default (for quarterinch) or the enumerations 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 for default, quarterinch, halfinch, cm, normalized respectively.	quarterinch	No
grid.style	The style used to draw the grid lines.	see the Line Style section of "ahelp chipsopt"	longdash	No
grid.thickness	The thickness used to draw the grid lines.	0.5 to 10.0; see the Thickness section of "ahelp chipsopt"	1	No
grid.visible	Should the grid be visible or not.	see the Booleans section of "ahelp chipsopt"	false	No
height	window height	Numerical value expressed in either inches, centimeters, millimeters or pixels	360 pixels	No
scaleheight	factor to scale window to display at approximate height	positive floating point value	1.25	No
scalewidth	factor to scale window to display at approximate width	positive floating point value	1.25	No
smoothing	use VTK's smoothing to reduce anti-aliasing	see the Booleans section of "ahelp chipsopt"	true	No
stem	Stem used for window id	An alpha-numeric character sequence that does not contain a space	win	No
prefix	Prefix added to window id to create the text that the window manager may use to label the ChIPS window.		"chips - "	No
units	Units of the window width and height dimensions	inches\|cm\|mm\|pixels	pixels	No
width	window width	Numerical value expressed in either inches, centimeters, millimeters or pixels	360 pixels	No

Bugs

See the bugs pages on the ChIPS website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.