Assigning user screen effects

From version 4.0 of PARADYME, the user has the ability to assign screen effects to each individual prompt defined here. However, there may be a large number of prompts and assigning an effect to each one can be time consuming. For this reason, PARADYME can assign default effects to the prompts. The user can then override these effects if they so wish.

Default assignment is selected in option 4. Three effects are assigned. These are ICOL, DCOL and VCOL. ICOL is used for any prompt that is either on the main buffer record or is INPUT. DCOL is user for those prompts that DISPLAY data off a cross-referenced record. VCOL is used for any variables defined in the routine.

As mentioned before, the user can either specify their own effects or override the default assignments. This is done by adding a suffix to the attribute/expression entry. Note that this suffix is added AFTER the VALUE INDEX suffix. The suffix takes the form of the vertical bar i.e. '|' (On some systems, decimal 124), followed by the effect name as set up on the DEFAULT effects record. For further information on the setup of effects and extending the available set of effects, refer to Chapter 2 - Installation.

If we had an effect called STAND.OUT and wanted to apply it to the field ADDRESS, the entry would be:-

ADDRESS | STAND.OUT

If we wanted to apply the effect to the a prompt that only dealt with the first value of the ADDRESS field, the entry would be:-

ADDRESS,1 | STAND.OUT

A special effect is also provided which is 'NO EFFECT'. This will prevent the default effect being applied to the field should the particular effect not be required. 'NO EFFECT' is suffixed in the same way as an effect is added to the field. If we wished to prevent a default effect being applied to the ADDRESS, we would enter it as follows:-

ADDRESS | NO EFFECT

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