The 'size' property

Two-element numeric vector

Valid for: All displayable objects and System

The size property determines the height and width of an object. The units depend on the setting of the object's scale property, but default to Character units (16 pixels high and 8 pixels wide), which are the height and typical width of a character in the System font. The first element of the size property is the height, and the second the width of the object. (See also the extent property, which is the same except that it is expressed in the scale of the object's parent.)

This example resizes an Edit box to be 1.5 units high and 20 wide:

      MyWin.Ed.size←1.5 20

The precise meaning of the size property depends on the object class, but in general is the size of the enclosing rectangle. For a Line, the size property determines the offset from the start point to the end point of the line.

For the System object, the size property is read-only, and returns the height and width of the screen. See also the workarea property which returns the rectangle within the screen size which is available for application use.