next up previous contents index
Next: 2.4 File Selection Dialog Up: 2.3 NExS Display Previous: 2.3.6 Spreadsheet Data Area

2.3.7 Window Frame

  The menu bar, edit line, spreadsheet area and message line are all contained within a window frame. Window frames do more than enclose the NExS display area. They contain icons that let you manipulate the size and position of windows on the screen.

You can have several windows open at once, move from window to window, change the size and position of windows on screen, and shuffle the order in which windows overlap one another. If several windows are open at once, all of them are active, but keyboard and mouse actions can address only one current window. In X Windows terminology, that window has the ``input focus.'' The window frame and functions are not controlled by NExS but rather by your system's window manager program. The exact method for manipulating windows depends on the window manager program you are using. These instructions assume that you are using the OSF/Motif Window Manager from the Open Software Foundation, Inc.

OSF/Motif Window Manager windows usually contain the following functional elements:

The Window Manager provides several options for manipulating windows with the keyboard, mouse and built-in shortcuts.

Current Window

 

To make a window current:

  1. Move the mouse pointer into the window, or

  2. Move the mouse pointer into the window and click the left mouse button.

Window Sizing

To enlarge the spreadsheet to fill the entire display:

     

  1. Move the mouse pointer to the larger box icon at the upper far right of the window frame.

  2. Click the left mouse button.
OR

  1. Click the window menu icon at the top left of the window frame.

  2.   Select Maximize from the window menu.
To return a maximized spreadsheet to normal size:

  1. Move the mouse pointer to the maximize button at the upper right corner of the window frame.

  2. Click the left mouse button.
OR

  1. Click the window menu icon at the top left of the window frame.

  2. Select Restore from the window menu.

To change the dimensions of the window:  

  1. Position the mouse pointer in the window border. The pointer will change shape.

  2. Press and hold the left mouse button. Drag the mouse until the fine cross-lines indicate the desired dimension.

  3. Release the mouse button.
OR

  1. Click on the window menu icon at the top left of the window frame.

  2. Select Size from the window menu.

  3. Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse until the cross-lines indicate the desired dimension.

  4. Release the mouse button.

Iconifying

To reduce the window to an icon:  

  1. Move the mouse pointer to the smaller box icon at the upper right of the window frame.

  2. Click the left mouse button.
OR

  1. Click the window menu icon at the top left of the window frame.

  2. Select Minimize from the window menu.
To restore a spreadsheet that has been turned into an icon:

  1. Move the mouse pointer to the icon.

  2. Click the left mouse button.

  3. Select Restore.
OR

  1. Move the mouse pointer to the icon.

  2. Double click the left mouse button.


NExS spreadsheets and graphs which are accepting real-time data feeds automatically update even when iconified.

Moving a Window

  To move the window:

  1. Move the mouse pointer to the title bar.

  2. Press the mouse button. While holding the mouse button down, move the mouse to reposition the window.

  3. Release the mouse button.
OR

  1. Click the window menu icon at the top left of the window frame.

  2. Select Move from the window menu.

  3. Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse until the cross-lines indicate the desired position.

  4. Release the mouse button.

To move the current window behind another window:

  1. Click the window menu icon at the top left of the window frame.

  2. Select Lower from the window menu.
To close the window and remove it from the workspace:

  1. Display the File menu from the menu bar.

  2. Select Quit from the File menu.


Keyboard shortcuts can be used to perform these functions. The keystrokes are marked beside the selection on the menus.


next up previous contents index
Next: 2.4 File Selection Dialog Up: 2.3 NExS Display Previous: 2.3.6 Spreadsheet Data Area

NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999