TITLE STATEMENT IN FORM LAYOUTS

TITLE displays a one line title in the form.  The statement can be repeated for displaying multiple line titles.  It can also be used to display the names of data fields.

SYNTAX

/[TITLE row column rendition text]...

row

is an integer constant that specifies the row position where the title begins in the form.

column

is an integer constant that specifies the column position where the title begins in the form.

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.

text

specifies the title text.  The title must be a quoted string and cannot exceed 131 characters.  The length of the title should be within the bounds of the form.  Extra characters are truncated.

EXAMPLE

/TITLE 5 2 @NORMAL "Order Quantity:"

This example shows that the title in the quoted string is displayed from row 5 and column 2 in the form.  The video attribute of the title is normal.

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