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Chapter 3 Defining Screen Tables : Adding Literal Text

Adding Literal Text
Definition
The text used in titles and footers, field labels, and on-screen instructions is referred to as literal text. During the display of a screen, this text is protected (the user cannot change the text) and remains constant.
Example
The following example illustrates literal text on a screen:

 
Expenses for Department #
Manager #
 
EMPLOYEE NAME EMPLOYEE# EXPENSE

 
Creating Literal Text
To create literal text, type the text that you want to use into the image area, exactly as you want it to appear on your screen. After creating literal text, you can do the following:
Considerations
Note the following about literal text:
Setting Display Attributes
You can control the presentation of literals by setting the display attributes. To set the display attributes, complete the following tasks:
1.
You do not have to be positioned on the literal text. The LITERAL ATTRIBUTES screen appears. This screen shows sample literals and how the literal text looks with the attributes set.
2.
To see any changes to attributes, press Enter and the changes are shown.
Display Attributes for Literals
There are six attributes you can set:
If you set any of these attributes, they apply to all literals in the screen table. Different screen tables can have different literal attributes. Therefore, if you want to have different attributes, design your screen accordingly by grouping fields that have both content and attributes in common.
Literal Attributes Screen
The following example illustrates the LITERAL ATTRIBUTES screen for the screen table EXPENSE_DATA.

 
LITERAL ATTRIBUTES for screentable EXPENSE_DATA
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This line shows how the literals will look.
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Attributes Colour
Highlight : Y Foreground :
Blink : N Background :
Reverse : N
Underline : N
PFKEYS: 3=SAVE 12=EXIT

 

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