lines

lines — rows and columns used for display

Calling sequence

lines([nl [,nc]])  
ncl=lines()  

Parameters

nl : an integer, the number of lines for vertical paging control. If 0 no vertical paging control is done.
nc : an integer, the number of column of output. Used for formatting output
ncl : a 1x2 vector [nc,nl]

Description

lines handles Scilab display paging.

lines() returns the vector [# columns, # rows] currently used by Scilab for displaying the results.

lines(nl) sets the number of displayed lines (before user is asked for more) to nl.

lines(0) disables vertical paging

lines(nl,nc) changes also the size of the output to nc columns.

When Scilab is launched without -nw option, the lines parameters are automatically set according to the output window size, these parameters are also automaticaly modified when the window is resized.

See also

disp, print