Designing Interactive Panels (Panel Services) › Panel Control Statements › #TRAILER Control Statement—Place Lines at Screen End

#TRAILER Control Statement—Place Lines at Screen End

This control statement positions function key prompts at the bottom of the screen.

Indicate the start of the trailer lines with a #TRAILER START statement. Then enter the lines to appear at the end of the screen, followed by a #TRAILER END statement.

This control statement has the following format:

#TRAILER [ START | END ]
         [ POSITION={ YES | NO } ]

START

Specifies the start of the lines in the trailer. Each line following this line until a #TRAILER END statement or another control statement such as #FLD is placed in the trailer.

END

Specifies that the end of the lines in the trailer. There must have been a #TRAILER START statement earlier in the panel definition.

No other operands can be specified on a #TRAILER END statement.

POSITION={ YES | NO }

Specifies whether to display the trailer lines.

YES

The trailer lines are displayed on the final lines of the physical screen.

NO

This value can be used to suppress the display of the trailer lines, even though they remain in the panel definition.

Examples: #TRAILER Control Statement

#TRAILER START
%This appears on the last line of the panel
#TRAILER END

Notes:

• The #TRAILER statements must appear before the first panel line in the definition. If you want to preparse the lines, you place the #TRAILER statements after the #OPT PREPARSE= statement.
• The field attribute characters which you use in the trailer lines can be defined before or after the trailer lines in the panel.
• The trailer lines cover any panel lines that would otherwise have been displayed.
• The trailer lines are positioned so that they end at the bottom of the physical screen if the window starts at the top of the screen.