ENABLE User's Guide

TAILORING AN APPLICATION
Providing a Tabular Format
Determining if a Record Will Fit in a Tabular Format
You can provide a tabular format for a box as long as all the
fields displayed for one record will fit in the box. Up to 71
characters will fit in a box at the second level of the tree
structure. At each subsequent level, subtract 8 characters to
determine the number of characters that will fit.
When you determine whether a particular record will fit within a
tabular format, allow for the following:
• The blank character that an application displays before and
after a record
• The blank character (or characters) that an application
displays between fields
--For T16-652x, T16-653x, and IBM-327x terminals, an
application displays one blank character between each field
--For T16-651x terminals, an application displays two blank
characters between each field
Positioning Labels Over Screen Fields
When you use the BOXTITLE attributes to provide screen labels,
you want these labels to appear over the appropriate screen
fields. To make sure that the labels appear in the correct
position, enter a comment line that shows the way the fields will
appear in the box immediately before the SET BOXTITLE command;
for example:
...
-- ## #################### # --
SET BOXTITLE 3 "
In the preceding example, the pound sign symbols (#) indicate
where fields will appear within a box. If you place a similar
comment line in an edit file with your ENABLE commands, you can
use the comment line to center your labels in the SET BOXTITLE
command.
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