Toggle High Intensity in a show command

[Laura Brody]

In the online help files, I used the SHOW codes to "draw" pictures of
popups, listboxes and menus in the examples that I created. Here is the
entry for LISTBOX (in dcabe.hlp)

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@@@ LISTBOX()
v4.1   \r n = LISTBOX(array[,beg[,end[,r[,c[,h[,w[,init]]]]]]]) \r - Display
        the elements in an array and allow the user to select one.
        If the user presses \KY, the result will be "0",
        otherwise the position of the element chosen.

        Colors used: POPUPNORMAL and POPUPINVERSE.

Enhanced: v5.0 - added 8th parameter to specify initial highlight position,
                 intervening optional parameters can be left off entirely.

Example:
       then: dim nums(5)(8,*); nums["1"] = "One"; nums["2"] = "Two"
       then: nums["3"] = "Three"; nums["4"] = "Four"; nums["5"] = "Five"
       then: x = LISTBOX(nums,"3","5")  ' Only display elements 3, 4 & 5.

             If the user chooses the first element in the listbox, "1"
             will be returned even though it is the 3rd element of
             the array.

(continued)
@@@
( \r LISTBOX \r continued)
Example:
      then: dim gender(3)(7,*); gender["1"]="Male"
      then: gender["2"] = "Female"; gender["3"]="Unknown"
      then: x = LISTBOX(gender,"","","","","","","3")
      then: ' x = LISTBOX(gender,,,,,,,"3") produces the same result.
        if: x eq "0" ' User pressed \KY.
      then: end
      then: sex = gender[x] ' Put choice in "sex" field.

  With POPUPNORMAL
  set to 0x2f and            \A2f\G7\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G9\A-
  POPUPINVERSE set           \A2f\G.  Male     \G.\B0  \B1\A-
  to 0x4f, the above         \A2f\G.  Female   \G.\B0  \B1\A-
  code will generate         \A2f\G.\A77 \A4f Unknown \A2f \G.\B0
\B1\A-<-cursor, highlight bar
  this listbox
\A2f\G1\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G0\G3\B0  \B1\A-
  centered on the screen:      \B0             \B1\B-<- dropshadow

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As you can see, I can mix and match background, foreground and graphics
characters in the SHOW statement to
get the desired result. BTW, "\A-" says to change the attributes back to
what they were originally. Anything with "\G"
followed by a number or character is a graphics character.

Does this help? Do you have a specific problem that you need solved?

Laura Brody


On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Mike via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> Can someone please help me out with the correct syntax to get the high
> intensity to work in a show command?
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> This is what I am trying but regardless of using the \i or not using \i it
> shows the exact same color.
>
> show ("21","16") "\b0\i\f5Select Department"
>
> and this is all the documentation says without even one example to show
> you where in the show command it's supposed to go, that took me a while...
>
> "Show Codes (Color only):
>    \I      Toggles high intensity
>    \Bn     Sets background color
>    \Fn     Sets foreground color
>    \Ann    Sets attribute (background+foreground)
>    \C      Characters only"
>
> Windows 2008 Server, Filepro 5.0.09 DN9
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Mike
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