Display Highlighting And Formatting - IBM 5291 1 Operator's Manual

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Display Highlighting and Formatting
The display station has several field highlighting characteristics to help draw
attention to a certain display screen location or field, or to show any place you
must enter data (input areas). These characteristics may appear in any
combination.
This display formatting is accomplished through programming in the system.
You might see one or more of the following display highlighting characteristics
(attributes) :
• Reverse Image: If light green characters are ordinarily displayed on a dark
background, a reverse image field has dark characters on a light green
background.
Name:
James Rothey
• Column Separator: Characters in this field are separated by dots. The dots
appear below the character.
Name: J,a.m,e,s, .R.o,t,h,e.y,
• Underscore: Characters in this field have a continuous horizontal line below
them.
Name: Jam e
5
Bot hey
• Blink: Characters in this field blink repeatedly.
• High Intensity: Characters in this field are brighter than those with normal
intensity.
• Nondisplay: Characters in this field are not displayed. For example, security
codes or passwords used for signing on to the system are often entered in
nondisplay fields.