Additions
1. ... COLOR n [ON] or ... COLOR OFF
2. ... INTENSIFIED [ON] or ... INTENSIFIED OFF
3. ... INVERSE [ON] or ... INVERSE OFF
4. ... HOTSPOT [ON] or ... HOTSPOT OFF
5. ... INPUT [ON] or ... INPUT OFF
6. ... RESET
Effect
Sets or modifies the valid output format.
Notes
The formats set by FORMAT work from the next
output in the list, i.e. from the next
WRITE command or from the next new
line.
The addition ... ON for switching on the relevant output format
is optional.
Addition 1
... COLOR n [ON] or ...COLOR OFF
Color of line background . n can have the following
values:
OFF or COL_BACKGROUND Background 1 or COL_HEADING Headers (grayish blue) 2 or COL_NORMAL List body (bright gray) 3 or COL_TOTAL Totals (yellow) 4 or COL_KEY Key columns (bluish green) 5 or COL_POSITIVE Positive threshold value(green) 6 or COL_NEGATIVE Negative threshold value (red) 7 or COL_GROUP Control levels (violet) Note
Every time a new event ( START-OF-SELECTION ,
TOP-OF-PAGE , ... ) is started, the system setting reverts to
COLOR 0 .
The additions .. INTENSIFIED and ...
INVERSE both affect the color display (see below).
The attribute ...COLOR does not work for
lines .
Addition 2
... INTENSIFIED [ON] or ... INTENSIFIED
OFF
Intensified - affects the background color.
Each color exists in a normal (desaturated) and in an
intensified (saturated) form. ... INTENSIFIED
takes the current background color from the "intensified" palette,
while the ... INTENSIFIED OFF uses the "normal" palette.
Note
Every time a new event ( START-OF-SELECTION ,
TOP-OF-PAGE , ...) is started, the system setting reverts to
... INTENSIFIED .
On a standard background ( COLOR COL_BACKGROUND ), the foreground
color may be affected in certain cases.
If, for example, you use the addition ... INVERSE with
the color palette "output field intense" (IntNorm), the addition
... INTENSIFIED has no effect; the only exception to this
rule is COLOR COL_BACKGROUND .
The attribute ...COLOR does not work for
lines .
Addition 3
... INVERSE [ON] or ... INVERSE
OFF
Inverse - affects the background and foreground colors.
Each color exists in an inverse form. ... INVERSE
takes the current color from the "inverse" palette and uses it as the
foreground (script) color. The background ( COL_BACKGROUND ) then
has no color. ... INVERSE OFF switches off the inverse
display.
Note
Every time a new event ( START-OF-SELECTION ,
TOP-OF-PAGE , ...) is started, the system setting reverts to
If the use of ... INVERSE results in the same background
and foreground colors ( COLOR OFF INVERSE ), the background color
and the foreground color are merely reversed.
When you are using the inverse display, the addition ...
INTENSIFIED has no effect. (As mentioned above, COLOR OFF
INVERSE is an exception to this rule.)
The attribute ...COLOR does not work for
lines .
Addition 4
... HOTSPOT [ON] or ... HOTSPOT
OFF
Effect
Affects the display format of the mouse pointer and the
effect of the mouse single click:
If you drage the mouse pointer over list areas which are output with
the format ...HOTSPOT (lines or fields), the mouse
pointer switches from its standard display format (usually an arrow) to
the format of a hand with an outstretched index finger. If you then
click once, the effect is like double-clicking or pressing the function
key
Note
The addition ...HOTSPOT has no effect on
input fields.
Addition 5
... INPUT [ON] or ... INPUT OFF
Effect
Determines whether the user can enter data. You can
change the contents of list lines output with the format ...
INPUT on the screen. You can also print out the change or process
it further by using READ LINE in
interactive events.
... INPUT OFF reverses the ready for input status.
Note
Every time a new event ( START-OF-SELECTION ,
TOP-OF-PAGE , ...) is started, the system setting reverts to
... INPUT .
The additions ... COLOR , ... INVERSE and
... HOTSPOT have no effect on input fields.
The addition ... INTENSIFIED affects the background color
(color palette "input field" or "output field intensified").
The attribute ... INPUT causes lines to
be displayed character-by-character and ready for input ( | or
- ).
Addition 6
... RESET
Effect
Resets all formats (color, intensified, inverse, hotspot
and input).
This corresponds to the command:
Example
produces the following output:
....+....10...+....20...+....30...+....40...+
JOHN CARL
ready for input: <------->
intensified: <------------------------------------------>
color: <--->
From the beginning of the line to the last character of
'JOHN' , the list is ready to accept input and is thus displayed
in intensified form.
From column 9 (i.e. after the 'N' of of 'JOHN' ), the list
line is also intensified but no longer ready for input.
'CARL' is output from line 40, together with a colored bar
(color COL_GROUP = 7 from the palette "color intensified"). The
script color is the color "output field intensified" (ProtInt). The
intensified line display ends with the last character of 'CARL' .
Note
If the formats apply only to the output of a single field,
you can set the same (and other) parameters as additions to the
WRITE statement.
If you want to display different formats on the screen, there are no
reserved characters, i.e. you may output 2 fields with different
formats one directly after the other (without gaps).
You can also set the static additions ON , OFF and
n (for COLOR ) dynamically with = var which always
interprets the contents of var as a number. Values other than zero are
used as ON or color number, zero works like OFF .
For color numbers less than zero or greater than 7, the result is not
defined.
Recommended data type: I(nteger)
Example
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