HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS) Reference Manual (32209-90024)

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VPLUS Overview
Product Overview
options, such as appending to the current form. Chapters 3 and 4 instruct you about
specifying whether the current form is to be repeated, or repeated and appended to itself.
Figure 1-2. FORMSPEC Form Menu
After you make the desired selections, FORMSPEC provides you with a blank screen to
design your form. You can use any of the terminal capabilities on this screen to insert or
delete lines or characters, and to position the cursor. The special terminal capabilities that
provide field enhancements, such as half bright, color, inverse video, or blinking are
selected through FORMSPEC Field Menus, as described in chapters 3 and 4. You do not
need to use complicated escape sequences to request enhancements to data fields.
The position of a field is defined by field delimiters. You identify each field by typing its
name within these delimiters. If the field is too short for a meaningful name, you can
provide a longer name later, if desired. The position of the beginning and ending of the
field automatically defines the maximum length of each field. Field delimiters can be
either brackets ([]) or invisible control characters, as shown in Figure 1-3. If the
delimiters are not visible, you can use a fill character to make the actual length of the field
visible during design.
PREV
FORM
NEXT
FORM
REFRESH
PREV NEXT MAIN/
RESUME
EXIT
FORMSPEC v.uu.ff Form Menu FORMS FILE: filename
[ SHIPTO ] Form Name
[ R ]
[ C ]
[]
Repeat Option
Next Form
Function Key Label
[]
Reproduced from
(opt)
N--No Repeat
A--Repeat, appending
R--Repeat, overlaying
C--Clear before Next Form
A--Append Next Form
F--Freeze, then append Next Form
Y--Define form level function key labels.
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