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Softkey Labels
You may have noticed the two different soft key labels produced in the preceding examples.
The label produced in the first example should have begun with the characters
My very
own
keys
(the rest of the characters in the softkey's definition are not shown in the label) .
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••
However, the label of the second example was simply
LIST.
You can also use a similar effect of the
I
Clear line
I
key in softkey labels to have nice-
looking labels that are not just the first n characters in the key's definition (in which n
is the width of the softkey label). For instance, suppose that you want to have a key
that produces the characters
MSI II: CS80. 700.0. 1 11 ,
but you would rather the label be
HardDisc.
Here is what you would enter in the softkey's definition:
EDIT KEY 1
I
Return
I
HardDisc
I
Shift
H
CTRL
H
Clear line
I
MSI II: CS80. 700.0.111
I
CTRL
H
Return
II
Return
I
The label
HardDisc
would be displayed momentarily whenever the key is pressed, but the
I
Clear line
I
keystroke would soon erase the characters, executing the
MSI II: CS80. 700 .0. 111
command. (The spaces following
HardDisc
move the
'~#"
characters out of the label.)
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