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about F2 split screen

Postby Pumpkin » Sat May 07, 2011 5:31 pm

hi,
i found when in ispf ,press F2,only can switch between 2 screens ,can it be more?
thanks?
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Re: about F2 split screen

Postby prino » Sat May 07, 2011 6:22 pm

Pumpkin wrote:i found when in ispf ,press F2,only can switch between 2 screens ,can it be more?

Just type 'new' on the command-line before pressing PF2, or change PF2 to "split new" and you can have up to (site_dependent!) 32 screens. Default is 8 I think.

Likewise, you can use PF9 to swap between more than two screens via:

LIST PF9 (SWAP LIST) - shows all screens in a pop-up
PREV PF9 (SWAP PREV) - previous screen
NEXT PF9 (SWAP NEXT) - next screen

Alternatively, you can give screens a name via the SCRNAME command and use SWAP name
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Re: about F2 split screen

Postby Pumpkin » Sun May 08, 2011 6:09 am

it works
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Re: about F2 split screen

Postby phunsoft » Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:25 am

You can also use the

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START
command to start another split screen. The advantage over

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SPLIT NEW
is that you can directly start the new application with the START command. E.g.

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START SDSF
START 3.4
START RMF
etc. And you can use the logical screen number with the SWAP PF key (PF9). Type the number in the command line and hit PF9. If you know that SDSF is running in logical screen 3, type 3 in the command line and hit PF9 to jump to this screen.

I suggest you turn the SWAPBAR on when working with more than two screens. Makes is easier to see which application is running in which screen.
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Re: about F2 split screen

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:11 am

no freason to reply to a 7 ( SEVEN ) years old topic
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