WINSTATUS

Purpose:

Returns status of current Window.

WINSTATUS(win, attrib)

win

Optional. Window reference. Defaults to the current Window.

attrib

Optional. Integer value indicating the window attribute to query:

For attribute 0, WINSTATUS returns the current window number.

For attributes 1-4, WINSTATUS returns 0 or 1.

In a four window worksheet with window 2 current and zoomed

winstatus(2)

returns a 1 indicating the current window, W2, is zoomed.

W1: gnorm(10, 1)

W2: {}

winstatus(w1, 4) == 1

clear w1

winstatus(w1, 4) == 0

WINSTATUS returns a real number.

WINSTATUS is useful when writing code that interacts with a worksheet particularly when there is no prior knowledge of the status of the worksheet.