BORDER STATEMENT IN MENU LAYOUTS

BORDER specifies that the menu should have a border and the border's title and rendition.  The title is automatically centered on the top of the menu.  If the title and rendition are omitted, the menu will have a border without a title.  If this statement is omitted, the menu will not have a border.

SYNTAX

/[BORDER [rendition title]]

rendition

specifies the video attributes for the title.  More than one video attribute may be specified by separating the attributes with plus signs.

   

The valid video attributes are:

  • @NORMAL specifies normal video attribute.  [default setting]
  • @BLINK specifies blinking video attribute.
  • @BOLD specifies bold face video attribute
  • @REVERSE specifies reverse video attribute.
  • @UNDERLINE specifies underlining video attribute

title

specifies the title text on the border.  The title must be a quoted string with a maximum length of 131 characters.  It cannot be longer than the width of the menu.  Extra characters are truncated.

EXAMPLE

/BORDER @BOLD"ORDER ENTRY"

This example shows a menu with a border.  The title, ORDER ENTRY, is displayed on the center top border line.  The video attribute of the title is bold face.

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