Date:         Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:16:12 -0400
Reply-To:     Dave Scocca <dave@SCOCCA.ORG>
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From:         Dave Scocca <dave@SCOCCA.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Customizing Display Manager appearance on startup
Comments: To: John Uebersax <jsuebersax@GMAIL.COM>
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--On 9/21/07 10:02 AM +0000 John Uebersax wrote:

> Can anyone suggest ways to change the default opening appearance of DM
> in the ways listed below?  Either with option settings or commands in
> the autoexec.sas file?
>
> Here's what I'd like to do:
>
> 1. Close the Results panel (which opens on left of screen)
> 2. Close the Explorer panel (which appears on left of screen when I
> close the Results panel)

To turn them off, use the NODMSEXP option in the SASV9.cfg file:

/* Do not display Explorer and Results */
-noDMSExp

If you want them available but not eating half your screen, go to Preferences,
to the View tab, and turn off "docking view".  That makes them each a separate
window rather than a panel, and expands the editor, log, and output windows to
the full width of the SAS window.

(Personal opinion: "docking view" is useless, and having it default to ON is a
really bad idea.  Turning it off is the first thing I do when using SAS on any
machine; when I do it for my co-workers they always think it's an improvement.)


> 3. Maximize the SAS Display Manager window in Windows

Use the AWSDEF option in the SASV9.CFG file:

/* Set application window size */
-AWSDef (0 0 100 95)

The first two numbers are the row and column position of the upper left
corner of the window, and the second two numbers are the height and width
of the window.  All four numbers are percentages of the screen width.

The position numbers can be between 0 and 95; the height/width numbers can
be between 40 and 100.

(This is particularly annoying when you move from SAS v8 to SAS v9, because the
V8 default is (0, 0, 100, 100) while the V9 default is (0, 0, 80, 80).)


> 4. Maximize the editor window within the SAS Display manager

Put the editor window to the size you want it, go to the command bar, and type
"wsave" and press return.  That will save the window size to your
SASUSER.PROFILE catalog.

Dave Scocca