Compaq AA-Q88CE-TE manual Interactive Definition of a Monitor Picture

Creating Monitor Pictures

The commands used to define and display monitor pictures are:

CLEAR

DISPLAY BAR

DISPLAY NUMERIC

DISPLAY STRING

DISPLAY SYMBOLIC

DISPLAY TEXT

MONITOR

SCROLL

SHOW DISPLAY

These commands are described in the following sections.

A.1 Interactive Definition of a Monitor Picture

Example A–1 shows a monitor picture being defined in an interactive RTR session.

Example A–1 Interactive Picture Definition

$ RTR
RTR> CLEAR /ALL		1
RTR> DISPLAY TEXT		/X=25 /Y=1 "THE TEST PICTURE AT $TIME" 2
RTR> DISPLAY NUMERIC RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM -			3
_RTR>	/X=1 /Y=3 /LABEL ="SOME DATA ITEM: "
RTR> DISPLAY NUMERIC RTR_ANOTHER_DATA_ITEM - 4
_RTR>	/X=1 /Y=4 /LABEL ="OTHER DATA ITEM: "
RTR> MONITOR	5
RTR> CLEAR /X=25 /Y=1 6
RTR> DISPLAY TEXT /X=25 /Y=1 "THE NEW PICTURE AT $TIME" 7
RTR> SHOW DISPLAY /OUTPUT=MYPICTURE.MON			8

1Any items from previously displayed pictures are cleared.

2A title is displayed on the first line. The symbol $TIME is substituted by the current system time when the picture is displayed. (See Section A.2, Substitution Symbols).

3The data item called RTR_SOME_DATA_ITEM is displayed on the third line.

4The data item called RTR_ANOTHER_DATA_ITEM is displayed on the next line. Note that if /X and /Y are omitted, the item is displayed on the next free line and in the same column as the previous item.

5The monitor picture is displayed on the screen. Figure A–1 shows what would appear on the screen at this point.

6The title is removed from the picture definition.

7A new title is added. This technique can also be used to make small alterations to standard monitor pictures.

8The definition of the picture is saved in the text file MYPICTURE.MON. The saved picture can be redisplayed by entering MONITOR MYPICTURE.

A–2Creating Monitor Pictures