Display Symbolic - Compaq AA-Q88CE-TE System Manager's Manual

DISPLAY SYMBOLIC

Display a text in a monitor picture depending on the result of an expression
evaluation.
Format
DISPLAY SYMBOLIC
Command Qualifiers
/BELL=Boolean-expression
/BLANK=Boolean-expression
/BLINK=Boolean-expression
/BOLD=Boolean-expression
/REVERSE
/UNDERLINE=Boolean-expression
/X=column
/Y=row
Description
The
DISPLAY SYMBOLIC
the value of
zero (0), the second string is output if the expression's value is 1, and so on. If
the expression has a value for which there is no corresponding entry in the list of
texts, then the value itself is printed. (Note that there is a limit of 255 characters
on the size of one command to RTR, so large numbers of long strings should be
avoided.)
The command can be used within a monitor file or issued at the
when interactively defining a monitor picture for use in a subsequent MONITOR
command.
Parameters
expression
The expression to be evaluated.
data item, or an expression combining several data items using simple arithmetic
operations and constants. In the latter case, the data items must all be of the
same type and
Qualifiers
/BLANK[=Boolean-expression]
/NOBLANK (D)
Specifies that the displayed value is replaced by blanks if
evaluates to True (non-zero).
/BLINK[=Boolean-expression]
/NOBLINK (D)
Specifies that the displayed value blinks if
(non-zero).
expression "text-string" [,"text-string"]...
Defaults
/NOBELL
/NOBLANK
/NOBLINK
/BOLD
/NOREVERSE
/NOUNDERLINE
Column of previous item
Next free row
command displays one of the text strings depending on
expression . The first string is output if the expression's value is
Expression
EXPRESSION must be enclosed in quotation marks.
DISPLAY SYMBOLIC
RTR
can either be the name of a single
Boolean-expression
evaluates to True
Boolean-expression
RTR Command Line Interface 6–81
prompt