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

Displaying Information About Panels
Working With Panels
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2. Type the ZEX1402P panel description file displayed earlier in this section (without
the indicators down the right side of the screen) in your user panel library.
3. Execute the ZEX1402N NCL procedure from the OCS command input line, using
the following START command:
START ZEX1402N
4. Observe the results, as shown in the following screen:
-------------------------------ABC PRIMARY MENU--------------------------------
Select Option ===> _
1 HELP
2 Option 2
3 Option 3
4 Option 4
5 EXIT
F3=Exit F4=Return
The screen title—ABC PRIMARY MENU—is centered, displayed in high intensity,
and padded with hyphens (-), as defined by the tilde (~) field character. The only
input field in the panel—S—is underlined, displayed in high intensity, and accepts
only numeric characters from 1 through 5 as defined by the opening square
bracket ([) field character. The S input field corresponds to the &S variable in the
NCL procedure.
Error messages are indicated by the terminal alarm and placed in the variable
&SYSMSG; the value in error is displayed in red and underlined.
The &SYS.INKEY system variable is automatically set by Panel Services when you
press a function key while displaying a panel.