!UNIX_LINESTYLES

This system variable controls the linestyles used by the WIN32 and WMF drivers. Possible values are:

1—The WIN32, WMF, and PM drivers use the X Windows linestyle listed in Available Linestyles.

0—The WIN32, WMF, and PM drivers use the Windows linestyle listed in Available Linestyles.

The default value is 0.

Available Linestyles

Index

X Windows Style

Windows Style

0 Solid Solid
1 Dotted Short dashes
2 Dashed Long dashes
3 Dash dot Long-short dashes
4 Dash-dot-dot-dot Long-short-short dashes
5 Long dashes Long dashes

The Windows linestyles are only available on Windows platforms and affect only the following device drivers:

  • WIN32—The standard windows display driver.
  • WMF—The Windows Metafile driver.
  • PM—The PixMap driver.

All other device drivers use the UNIX linestyles exclusively.

The Windows drivers listed above use the Windows linestyles by default. You may force the Windows drivers listed above to use the UNIX linestyles by setting the PV-WAVE system variable !UNIX_LINESTYLES to 1. (Default: !UNIX_LINESTYLES = 0)