Color, Highlight and Intensity Parameters

The @STYLE, @LINE, @FIELD and @HEADER line types support COLOR, HILITE and INTENS parameters. Color takes effect on color monitors only. Highlight takes effect on both color and monochrome monitors. Intensity takes effect on monochrome monitors only.

Valid colors:

• NONE (Default)
• WHITE
• BLUE
• GREEN
• TURQ
• RED
• PINK
• YELLOW

Valid highlights:

• NONE (Default)
• BLINK USCORE
• REVERSE
• DARK

For of monochrome monitors, users can add the INTENS parameter to the @FIELD line type.

Valid intensities:

• LOW (Default)
• HIGH

Users can create a combination of color and highlight or highlight and intensity for each field by specifying COLOR, HILITE and INTENS parameters on the same @FIELD line. The COLOR, HILITE, and INTENS parameters can all be specified on a line. Each takes effect when appropriate.

• If the above parameters are omitted on the @FIELD line, the field inherits those parameters from the @LINE preceding it.
• If these parameters are omitted on the @LINE line, the line inherits those parameters from the @STYLE preceding it.
• If these parameters are omitted on the @STYLE line, they are set to their default values.

@STYLE, @LINE and @FIELD also accept COLORA and HILITEA parameters that have the same values as COLOR and HILITE, respectively. These parameters can be used to specify a set of alternate colors when displaying records: the first record on the screen is displayed with COLOR and HILITE; the second record is displayed with COLORA and HILITEA; the third record with COLOR and HILITE, and so on. This causes an alternating color effect. If COLORA and HILITEA are omitted, the alternate colors are set to the standard color values.