Creating & Using Nodes

Information to The Information to Output

Outputoptions specify the data or command to be transmitted (string), or the register or file containing the data.

Refer to Registers on page 78 and Files on page 81.

Special Commands

You can use an Output node to send special commands to the portable's display or operating system.

Creating Special Display Commands

To create a command to send to the display, complete the following steps:

1.Select Display as the Output to Device.

2.Select String as the Data Source.

3.To add a command, press the Add button. An Add Output Operation

dialog appears (shown in Figure 39).

Figure 39. The Output Operation dialog

Select Select the location for the beginning of the command to appear on the porta- Operation ble’s display from the Select Operation pull-down list.

Move to row, column within current display

Erase all text from cursor to EOL

Move to row, column within the virtual screen. Refer to Actual vs. Virtual Display on page 19 for more information.

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