KEYWORD specifies the item's keyword. It must follow an ITEM statement. The keyword text is displayed on the screen. When an item is selected, the system field @MENU_KEYWORD contains the keyword text. The value of @MENU_KEYWORD can be examined to determine which item has been selected. The menu LAYOUT SCREEN permits the statement "KEYWORD" to be abbreviated to "KEY".
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is an integer constant that specifies the row position where the keyword begins in the menu. |
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is an integer constant that specifies the column position where the keyword begins in the menu. |
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rendition |
specifies the video attributes for the keyword. More than one video attribute may be specified by separating the attributes with plus signs. |
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The valid video attributes are:
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specifies the keyword text. This must be a quoted string with a maximum keyword text length of 39 characters. The keyword text cannot be empty. If this field is left empty, the entire KEYWORD statement will be ignored. |
/KEYWORD 2 3 @REVERSE"ADD"
This example shows a keyword ADD which appears at row 2 and column 3 in the menu. The video attribute is reverse video. When this item is selected, @MENU_KEYWORD contains the text ADD.
NOTE: If the KEYWORD substatement is not specified in the LAYOUT segment, then each item's sequence number (followed by a period '.') will be displayed in the menu. The item number corresponds to the value returned in @MENU_CHOICE. This feature is useful for applications where a user selects a menu item by entering the number of the desired item.