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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:
Attributes
Remarks
The STRING dialog responds to the special keyboard keys as follows:
Key
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Action
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End
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Clears from cursor to end of line
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End
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Clears entire line
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Shift-Insert
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Inserts a line, if MULTILINE:1
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Shift-Delete
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Deletes entire line
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Insert
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Toggles between insert (bar cursor) and overwrite (underline cursor)
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Delete
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Deletes current selection if highlighted. Otherwise, deletes character at current cursor position.
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Home
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Deletes from current character to last character in last line
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Left Arrow,
Right Arrow,
Up Arrow,
Down Arrow
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Moves cursor and scrolls if necessary
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Shift-Left
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Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the first character in the line
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Shift-Right
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Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the last character in the line
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Shift-Up
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Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the first character in the first line
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Shift-Down
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Moves and scrolls (if necessary) to the last character in the last line
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Page Up/
Page Down
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Scrolls one screen, if MULTILINE:1
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