Keithley 708B Reference Manual page 336

Models 707B and 708B Switching Matrix Reference Manual
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This function selects the user display screen and displays the given text.
After the instrument is turned on, the first time you use a display command to write to the display, the message
"USER SCREEN" is cleared. After the first write, you need to use display.clear() to clear the message.
The display.clear(), display.setcursor(), and display.settext() functions are overlapped,
nonblocking commands. That is, the script does NOT wait for one of these commands to complete. These
nonblocking functions do not immediately update the display. For performance considerations, they update the
physical display as soon as processing time becomes available.
The text starts at the present cursor position. After the text is displayed, the cursor is after the last character in
the display message.
Top line text does not wrap to the bottom line of the display automatically. Any text that does not fit on the current
line is truncated. If the text is truncated, the cursor is left at the end of the line.
The text remains on the display until replaced or cleared.
The following character codes can be also be included in the text string:
Display character codes
Character Code
$N
$R
$B
$D
$F
$$
Example
display.clear()
display.settext("Normal $BBlinking$N")
display.settext("$DDim $FBackgroundBlink"
.. "$R $$$$ 2 dollars")
Also see
display.clear()
display.getcursor()
display.gettext()
display.screen
display.setcursor()
707B-901-01 Rev. A / August 2010
Description
Newline, starts text on the next line. If the cursor is already on line 2, text will be ignored
after the $N is received
Sets text to normal intensity, non-blinking
Sets text to blink
Sets text to dim intensity
Sets the text to background blink
Escape sequence to display a single dollar symbol ($)
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Section 7: Command reference
This example sets the display to:
Normal Blinking
Dim BackgroundBlink $$ 2 dollars
with the named effect on each word.
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