LINES and COLUMNS

 

Specify the default size of the 4gl screen window.

 

Syntax:

 

LINES={any integer}

COLUMNS={any integer}

 

Usage and examples:

 

The default size of the 4gl screen is equal to the integer number of characters specified in the corresponding environment variables:

 

LINES=50

COLUMNS=50

 

LINES and COLUMNS apply at runtime, so they must be set in inet.env.

 

By default, LyciaDesktop remembers the size and position of the application window with which it was closed and will open it again with the remembered size and position.

This means that after changing the values of LINES and COLUMNS, you have clean the LyciaDesktop cache because otherwise these changes will affect the runtime behavior only of a) the applications for which the no_position_restore class is applied, b) the applications which were run for the first time after you have reset LINES and COLUMNS.