SeeView Manual

Using the SeeView Program
HP NonStop SeeView Manual—526355-004
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Interacting With Windows
interpreter. The physical components of a window appear in Figure 3-1, Window
Components.
Free Windows
The three types of windows in the SeeView program are free, assigned, and menu.
Free windows have not been assigned to a user task or to a menu text cache. When a
window is free, any commands entered on the sill of that window are commands to the
SeeView language interpreter. Free windows do not have a heading.
Many SeeView statements entered from a free window result in data being displayed in
(or cleared from) that window. For example, CLEAR clears window area, STATUS
displays user task status, ALTER
displays current option settings, and HELP displays
specified help.
It is sometimes useful to use the Help page as a place to enter these statements so
that you can later reference (for example, HELP for a statement that is being used or
ALTER for an option that is being changed). Any text on a window sill can be copied,
retrieved, or scrolled.
Assigned Windows
A window with a heading is an assigned window. When a window is assigned to a task,
you can communicate directly with the task by placing one or more statements on the
sill of the window and pressing Return. Any messages displayed in the window during
such communication are saved in a message cache associated with the user task.
Figure 3-1. Window Components