Window Captions

The captions of the various windows that comprise the Dyalog Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are user-configurable and defined by entries in the Windows registry in the Captions subkey of the main Dyalog key.

Note that this only applies when the windows are floating (un-docked). When a window is docked Dyalog displays a fixed non-configurable caption.

Note also that the Captions subkey is not created by the interpreter; the user must create the subkey and the values.

Each entry is a string value whose name identifies the window as follows:

Window Name	Description
Session	The main Dyalog APL session window
Editor	The Editor window
SysTray	The hint on Dyalog icons in the System Tray
MessageBox	The notification Message Box that is displayed in various circumstances; for example, when an object cannot be fixed by the Editor
Explorer	The Workspace Explorer tool
Rebuild Errors	The dialog box that is displayed if one or more objects cannot be re-instantiated when a workspace is loaded
Status	The Status window
Event Viewer	The Event Viewer
FindReplace	The Find/Replace dialog box
ExitDialog	The Exit dialog box that is displayed when the user closes the Session window
WSSearch	The Find Objects tool
Syserror	The Syserror Message Box

Each string value should contain a mixture of your own text and keywords which are enclosed in braces, for example, {TITLE}. Keywords act like variables and are replaced at display time by corresponding values as described in the table below.

Keyword	Value
{TITLE}	The window name shown in the first column of the previous table
{WSID}	Workspace ID ( ⎕WSID )
{NSID}	Current Namespace
{SNSID}	Current Namespace (short version)
{PRODUCT}	The name of the Dyalog product, for example, "Dyalog APL/W - 64"
{VER_A}	The main version number, for example, "14"
{VER_B}	The secondary version number, for example, "0"
{VER_C}	The tertiary version number (currently the internal revision number)
{PID}	The process ID
{CHARS}	"Classic" or "Unicode"
{BITS}	"32" or "64"
{XLOC}	The namespace currently being explored (Explorer only)

For example, if the Registry contains .\Captions\Session whose value is:

    My APL ({WSID}) Version {VER_A}.{VER_B}[{VER_C}]  - {PID}

then the caption displayed in a new Dyalog APL Session window might be:

    My APL (CLEAR WS) Version 14.0[20105] - 4616