NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Programmer's Guide

Components in Panel Processing
Working With Panels
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The following screen shows the results of executing the procedure:
A tiny panel. Press any function key to proceed.
While this panel is displayed, execution of the NCL process is suspended while it
waits for user input. (The NCL process is suspended because the panel is
synchronous.) When the user presses a function key, the PANEL verb completes its
operation of displaying the panel. Execution of the NCL process then resumes at the
next statement, PANELEND in this example, which explicitly removes the panel from
display.
Note It is important to distinguish a panel description file from a panel. A panel description file is a source file
containing both the text to display on a screen and the panel control statements that determine how to
display the text. A panel is the actual screen display that results from processing the panel description file
by Panel Services and NCL.