HP 3000 Manuals

HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS/V)

FORM LAYOUT 

Each form is associated with a picture that is displayed when the form is
requested during execution.  This picture is called the "form".  You
design the form on a blank display screen, as shown in Figure 3-21, using
all the terminal capabilities associated with block mode.

Once you have entered your headings and other text, and delimited the
data fields, the form is basically designed.  Each field has default
field attributes assigned to it by FORMSPEC, so that unless you want to
specify different attribute or processing specifications for the field,
form design is complete.


          Figure 3-21.  Form Layout Menu 

Note that you can use the terminal escape sequences or function keys to
enhance the text.  If you display another set of function keys (such as
with AIDS or MODES) while designing the screen, you must restore the
function keys to their FORMSPEC-defined values (such as with USERKEYS)
before continuing forms design on the next menu.

Note that if you are designing a form to run on the HP 264X terminals,
you must not use column 79 if the form is to be part of a form family nor
use column 80 if the form is to be either appended or part of a form
family.  A multiline field must go all the way through column 80 in order
to continue on the next line.

MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation