Interactive Definition Of A Monitor Picture; Substitution Symbols - Compaq AA-Q88CE-TE System Manager's Manual

Creating Monitor Pictures
The commands used to define and display monitor pictures are:
CLEAR
DISPLAY BAR
DISPLAY NUMERIC
DISPLAY STRING
DISPLAY SYMBOLIC
DISPLAY TEXT
MONITOR
SCROLL
SHOW DISPLAY
These commands are described in the following sections.
A.1 Interactive Definition of a Monitor Picture
Example A–1 shows a monitor picture being defined in an interactive RTR
session.
Example A–1 Interactive Picture Definition
$ RTR
RTR> CLEAR /ALL
RTR> DISPLAY TEXT /X=25 /Y=1 "THE TEST PICTURE AT $TIME"
RTR> DISPLAY NUMERIC RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM -
_RTR>
RTR> DISPLAY NUMERIC RTR_ANOTHER_DATA_ITEM -
_RTR>
RTR> MONITOR
RTR> CLEAR /X=25 /Y=1
RTR> DISPLAY TEXT /X=25 /Y=1 "THE NEW PICTURE AT $TIME"
RTR> SHOW DISPLAY /OUTPUT=MYPICTURE.MON
Any items from previously displayed pictures are cleared.
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A title is displayed on the first line. The symbol
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the current system time when the picture is displayed. (See Section A.2,

Substitution Symbols).

The data item called
3
The data item called
4
Note that if
and in the same column as the previous item.
The monitor picture is displayed on the screen. Figure A–1 shows what would
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appear on the screen at this point.
The title is removed from the picture definition.
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A new title is added. This technique can also be used to make small
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alterations to standard monitor pictures.
The definition of the picture is saved in the text file
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saved picture can be redisplayed by entering
A–2 Creating Monitor Pictures
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/X=1 /Y=3 /LABEL ="SOME DATA ITEM:
/X=1 /Y=4 /LABEL ="OTHER DATA ITEM: "
5
6
RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM
RTR_ANOTHER_DATA_ITEM
and are omitted, the item is displayed on the next free line
/X /Y
2
3
"
4
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is substituted by
$TIME
is displayed on the third line.
is displayed on the next line.
MYPICTURE.MON
MONITOR MYPICTURE
. The
.