All applications require a screen to work in. This can be an existing, public screen or a new, custom screen created by the application itself. To create a new, custom screen to work with, you call OpenScreen() or one of its variants. Table 3-3: Custom Screen Functions _____________________________________________________________________ | | | openscreentags() create a new, custom screen from a tag list. | | openscreentaglist() use either one of these with release 2 (v36) | | or later versions of the OS. | | | | openscreen() create a new, custom screen from an | | extnewscreen structure. use this if your | | application must be compatible with 1.3 (V34) | | or earlier versions of the operating system. | | | | closescreen() close a custom screen and free the memory | | it used. | |_____________________________________________________________________| creating a new custom screen screen attributes