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Field Definitions

Each format consists of a number of field definitions. The structure of each field is shown in the following table:

Length

Function

2-bytes

Field identifier.

Each field available to a panel has a unique identifier.

2-bytes

Start position on a line of the panel.

2-bytes

Length of the field.

1-byte

Attribute of the field as normally displayed.

1-byte

Attribute of the field when the file/device is active.

1-byte

Attribute of the field when in modified or extended modified mode.

1-byte

Attribute for the filtering criteria field associated with this field.

4-bytes

Pointer to the field containing the column heading text for the field.

The Action field must remain first field on every panel. The file sequence (FILESEQ) on the file menu and the Dest (PRTNAME) on the printer menu must remain as the second fields on those menus. The order in which the remaining fields are described does not matter, if they conform to the above description. It is, however, far more readable if the fields are described in the order in which they appear on the panel.