HP 3000 Manual page 255

13 Chapter 2 Using SIGEDITOR
Introduction
This chapter gives a detailed description of SIGEDITOR's capabilities. They are:
• * Creating forms files.
• * Entering forms specifications.
• * Specifiying form field attributes.
• * Using additional editing features.
• * Using the form utilities.
Opening, Creating, and Listing Forms Files
To open a forms file, press f1 (SELECT FRMS FIL) from the main menu. Enter the form filename in the
field provided and press ENTER . If the forms file does not exist, you can create a new forms file. To create
a new forms file type "Y". You also have the option to enter a different forms filename, or to return to the
main menu by pressing f8 . Form filenames follow MPE file naming conventions (up to eight alphanumeric
characters are allowed, beginning with a letter). Once you specify a forms filename, the edit menu is
displayed, and the names of the forms within the forms file are listed. The form names are listed in the
default format of 16 rows, with eight form names per row. If there is more than one screenful of form
names, you can list the next page of form names by pressing f6 . Use f5 to list the previous page. An
alternate format lists one form name per row, along with detailed information regarding the size and date
of creation and revision of each form. To switch to the alternate format, press f1 . To switch back to the
default display format, press f1 again.
NOTE
When you edit a forms file that was created with a version of SIGEDITOR prior to
8.00, the format is automatically converted. The new format is not compatible with
RPG versions prior to 8.00. Be sure to back up form files before editing if you need to
use an older version of RPG.
Editing Form Attributes
You can assign form attributes for each form and field attributes to each field in a form. Specifications or
attributes describe how the form or field is formatted when used by a program. These settings are
recorded and stored by SIGEDITOR. SIGEDITOR does not respond to the specifications, but stores them
for later use by the RPG runtime library. See chapter 4 for more information about using forms with RPG.
To edit form attributes, enter a valid form name in the edit main menu and press f2 (EDT FORM
ATTRIB).
A set of form attributes appear on the screen after the main menu, as shown in Figure 2-1. The screen
appears when you press the f2 key (EDT FORM ATTRIB). Figure 2-1 shows the default form attributes.
These default values dictate how SIGEDITOR treats the form, unless you tab to a field and enter a new
value.
________________________________________________________________________________________________|
| Form Name
| Number of lines to clear
| Sound alarm
| Exception output
2-257
FORM1 Start line number
24 Uppercase only
N Override fields
N Forms cache *GLOBAL
01 |
Y |
N |
N |