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TCI Window

The TCI window has six parts:

1. The Title Bar is the same as the one used in most Windows applications, with a control menu button on the left and the minimize, maximize, and close buttons on the right. You can adjust the size of the TCI window using standard window techniques, but see Resizing the TCI Window for information about how TCI's display changes when you do so.
2. See TCI Menus for details about the Menu Bar and all of its menus.
3. The Tool Bar is used to execute internal or external commands, aliases, batch files, and applications with the click of a mouse. You can define up to 50 Tool Bar buttons; see Tool Bar Dialog for instructions. You can show or hide the Tool Bar with a choice on the Options Menu, from Window Option Tab of the Configuration Dialog, or with the ToolBarOn directive in TCI.INI.
4. The Tab Bar switches between your console sessions. You can create a new tab by double clicking on a blank part of the tab bar. You can delete a tab by clicking on the X in the upper right corner. You can also drag console app icons onto the tab bar to start them in a tab, or drag tabs off the tab bar to detach them from TCI.
5. The Command Window accepts your input and displays the console application's output. You can use the scroll bars to view text that has scrolled out of the window. You can also save the contents of the window and scrollback buffer to a file, print all or part of the scrollback buffer, copy text from the window to the clipboard, and copy text from the clipboard or from the window to the command line. See Highlighting and Copying Text for information about saving and retrieving text in the Command Window.
6. Finally, the Status Bar at the bottom of the TCI window displays information about your system:

   The current date and time
   The percentage of CPU usage
   The percentage "memory load" as reported by Windows
   The state of the Caps Lock key on the keyboard
   The state of the Num Lock key on the keyboard
   The window size (columns and rows)
   A slider control to adjust the transparency level of the TCI window

You can show or hide the Status Bar with a choice on the Options Menu, with the Window Option Tab of the Configuration Dialog, or with the StatusBarOn directive in TCI.INI.

If you find the default "I-Beam" cursor in the TCI window difficult to see, disable it from the Startup page of the configuration dialog, or set the IBeamCursor=No directive in the [TCI] section of TCI.INI to force the use of an arrow cursor in all parts of the window.