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String Dialog

 
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STRING Dialog
Prompts the operator for textual input
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Example Image
 
     
 
Example Program
 
See STRING Dialog for an example program that produces a display similiar to that shown above.
 
NOTE
 
See the following program for another example using the STRING dialog:
 
         Dialogs Tests
 
Attributes
 
See STRING Dialog Attributes for the STRING dialog attribute list.
 
Remarks
 
The STRING dialog responds to the special keyboard keys as follows:
 
Key
Action
End
Clears from cursor to end of line
End
Clears entire line
Shift-Insert
Inserts a line, if MULTILINE:1
Shift-Delete
Deletes entire line
Insert
Toggles between insert (bar cursor) and overwrite (underline cursor)
Delete
Deletes current selection if highlighted. Otherwise, deletes character at current cursor position.
Home
Deletes from current character to last character in last line
Left Arrow,
Right Arrow,
Up Arrow,
Down Arrow
Moves cursor and scrolls if necessary
Shift-Left
Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the first character in the line
Shift-Right
Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the last character in the line
Shift-Up
Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the first character in the first line
Shift-Down
Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the last character in the last line
Page Up/
Page Down
Scrolls one screen, if MULTILINE:1