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Series 2600 System SourceMeters Reference Manual
display.settext
Function Displays text on the user screen.
Usage
display.settext(text)
text
• This function selects the user display screen, and displays the given text. The first
Remarks
write to the display after poweron will clear the user screen.
• The text starts at the present cursor position. After the text is displayed, the cursor
will be located after the last character in the display message.
• Top line text will not wrap to the bottom line of the display automatically. Any text
that does not fit on the current line will be truncated. If the text is truncated, the
cursor will be 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
$N
$R
$B
$D
$F
$$
• The
functions are overlapped, non-blocking commands. That is, the script will NOT wait for
one of these commands to complete. These non-blocking functions do not immediately
update the display. For performance considerations, they write to a shadow and will
update the display as soon as processing time becomes available.
Details See "Displaying text
Also see display.clear, display.getcursor, display.gettext,
Example Displays a message on the user screen:
display.clear()
display.settext("Message Test $N$Bwith Row 2 Blinking")
The top line displays "Message Test" and the bottom line displays the blinking
message "with Row 2 Blinking".
Text message string to be displayed.
Newline – Starts text on the next line. If the cursor is already on line 2, text
will be ignored after the '$N' is received.
Sets text to Normal.
Sets text to Blink.
Sets text to Dim intensity.
Sets text to background blink.
Escape sequence to display a single "$".
display.clear, display.setcursor,
messages" on
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display.settext
Section 14.
display.setcursor
Section 12 topics 2600S-901-01 Rev. A / May 2006
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