Using VPLUS: An Introduction to Forms Design (32209-90004)

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appear on the form, press ESCAPE before typing each bracket.
Combining ESCAPE and [ indicates the start of a field. Similarly,
combining ESCAPE and ] indicates the end of a field. When
preceded by ESCAPE, the brackets do not appear on the form and do
not take up any room; for this reason they are called nonprinting
brackets. With either printing or nonprinting brackets, you can
fill the field with dots (periods) so you can see the extent of
the field. The dots only appear during form layout; they are not
shown when the form is displayed by ENTRY.
2. Name each field within the delimiters. A field name, called the
field tag, must be typed inside the field delimiters. This tag
can be upper or lower case letters or a combination of upper and
lower case. The first character must be a letter, but other
characters may be letters, the numbers from 0-9, or an underline
(_).
All other considerations of form layout are aesthetic. During form
layout, you can use all the terminal edit and display group keys and the
cursor control keys (as described in your terminal reference manual).
These keys allow you to move freely around the screen inserting or
deleting lines and characters and moving the fields around until you are
satisfied with how the form appears. Do not enable automatic line feed
(Auto LF) while running FORMSPEC.
Figure 2-6. The Form Layout for the ShipTo Form
Action
Layout the form as shown in Figure 2-6; the positions of the fields are
defined in Table 2-1.
Each field into which the user can enter data has been delimited by