Intermate AS/400, i5, iSeries manual Design Screen

The Design Screen

Note: Refer to Appendix O on page 461 for information of how to install and use the InterForm400® graphical designer.

When you press Enter from the previous screens you will finally reach the screen where the entry of overlay elements are made:

Design InterForm 400 overlay		APF300D
Overlay name: IF400DEMO	Overlay text: Demo overlay for InterForm400
Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition

Seqnbr. Type

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F3=Exit F5=Service F12=Cancel F18=View Spool entry

An overlay consists of a number of sequence lines, each defining a part of the overlay like frames, lines, text constants etc.

When entering a screen with existing sequence lines the last entered lines will be displayed. The system simply believes that you intend to continue entering overlay elements

You can scroll through the lines using page-up and page-down.

Each line in the overlay definition is accessed via its sequence number. If you select an existing sequence number you will be able to update or delete this particular line. If you select a line number not already in the definition it means you wish to add a new line.

Sequence numbers can be entered with 1 decimal position. This opens up the possibility of inserting a new line anywhere in the definition, as the specification of a line with a decimal results in the addition of 1 to the sequence numbers of all succeeding lines in the definition. The new line is placed in the vacant space in the reference series. As example entering 12,1 will insert a sequence number between line 12 and 13. When saved the inserted sequence line is assigned number 13 and the following lines are incremented by one.

After entering a sequence number press the Field Exit key to add or edit this line. The key mapping of keyboards varies from one PC to another. The Field Exit key could be assigned to e.g. the right Ctrl key, the Enter key or the ‘+’ key of your numeric keyboard.

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