Help: The Take Command Window

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 also adjust the size of the Take Command window using standard window techniques, but see Resizing the Take Command Window for information about how Take Command's display changes when you do so.

3.	The Toolbar is used to execute internal or external commands, aliases, batch files, and applications with the click of a mouse. You can define up to 32 Tool Bar buttons; see Tool Bar Dialog for instructions. You can customize and show or hide the Tool Bar with a choice on the Options Menu.

The Tab Toolbar is an optional tool bar that you can use to execute internal or external commands, aliases, or batch files with the click of a mouse (or an accelerator key). You can define up to 50 tab toolbar buttons. To create buttons for the tab toolbar, select Configure Tab Toolbar from the Options menu. This selection displays the tool bar dialog. You can also configure the tab toolbar from TCC with the TCTOOLBAR command.

6. The List View window shows the contents of the item selected in the Folders window. You can display the List View window in a number of ways (Large Icons, Small Icons, List, and Details views).

The Command Input window allows you to create and edit commands before sending them to the active tab window. This is not limited to entering something at the command prompt; you can feed strings anywhere a console app is expecting input. You can scroll back to previous lines, edit, and reexecute them. The Command Input window also has full undo/redo (up to 31 levels), drag and drop, and both mouse and keyboard text selection.

The Tab Windows run the Take Command Console, or any other Windows console application (including CMD, PowerShell, or bash). You can use the scroll bars or the Alt cursor keys to view text that has scrolled through the window. You can also save the contents of a tab window and scrollback buffer to a file, copy text from a tab Window to the clipboard, and copy text from the clipboard or from the tab window scrollback buffer to the command line. See Highlighting and Copying Text for information about saving and retrieving text in the tab window and The Command Line for complete details about using the Take Command console command line.

If you find the "I-Beam" cursor in the Take Command tab windows difficult to see, change it in the Tabs page of the configuration dialog to force the use of an arrow cursor in all parts of the window.