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Defining display formats
232 DataWindow .NET
Using keywords
Enclose display format keywords in square brackets. For example, you can use
the keyword
[General] when you want DataWindow Designer to determine the
appropriate format for a number.
Using colors
You can define a color for each display format section by specifying a color
keyword before the format. The color keyword is the name of the color, or a
number that represents the color, enclosed in square brackets:
[RED] or [255].
The number is usually used only when a color is required that is not provided
by name. The named color keywords are:
[BLACK]
[BLUE]
[CYAN]
[GREEN]
[MAGENTA]
[RED]
[WHITE]
[YELLOW]
The formula for combining primary color values into a number is:
256*256*blue + 256*green + red=number
where the amount of each primary color is specified as a value from 0 to 255.
For example, to specify cyan, substitute 255 for blue, 255 for green, and 0 for
red. The result is 16776960.
If you want to add text to a numeric display format and use a color attribute,
you must include the escape character (\) before each literal in the mask. For
example:
[red]\D\e\p\t\: ###
Table 8-1 lists the blue, green, and red values you can use in the formula to
create other colors.
Table 8-1: Numeric values used to create colors
Blue Green Red Number Color
0 0 255 255 Red
0 255 0 65280 Green
0 128 0 32768 Dark green
255 0 0 16711680 Blue
0 255 255 65535 Yellow
0 128 128 32896 Brown
255 255 0 16776960 Cyan
192 192 192 12632256 Light gray