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

Defining Field Characters in a Panel Description File
Working With Panels
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If the first character on a line is not a valid field character, the plus sign, which
displays an output field in low-intensity, is assumed. The implicit plus sign is
overwritten with a blank character when the panel is displayed on the screen.
Specifying Display
Attributes
When creating your own field characters, there are many operands you can use to
specify display attributes. You can specify the following:
The color attribute of a field character, using the COLOR operand of the #FLD
statement:
#FLD ^ COLOR=RED
The background color attribute of a field character, using the BKGCOLOR
operand of the #FLD statement:
#FLD ^ BKGCOLOR=TURQUOISE
The highlighting attribute of a field character, using the HLITE operand of the
#FLD statement:
#FLD * HLITE=REVERSE
The intensity attribute of a field character, using the INTENS operand of the #FLD
statement:
#FLD ( INTENS=LOW
The case-conversion attribute of a field character (for alphabetic characters), using
the CAPS operand of the #FLD statement:
#FLD ) CAPS=NO
System-Wide Panel Field Attributes
There are some system variables whose contents control one or more of the
system-wide default field attributes for such fields as:
Centered titles
Error fields and error messages
Input data fields—both mandatory and optional
Labels and comments
Left and right titles
Output data fields—both mandatory and optional
Subtitles and headings
The system-wide attributes that these system variables control are color, highlighting,
intensity, and padding.