SheerPower^® 4GL
A Guide to the SheerPower Language

Chapter 7
7	Printing and Displaying Data
7.1	PRINT
7.1.1	Printing Multiple Expressions
7.1.2	TAB Function
7.1.3	AT Option
7.1.4	ERASE Option
7.1.5	Printing Numbers
7.1.6	Positioning the Cursor for the Next Print Statement
7.1.7	Printing Attributes - Highlighting Options
7.1.8	USING Option
7.1.9	Fields
7.1.9.1	String Format Characters
7.1.9.2	Numeric Format Characters
7.1.10	Directives
7.1.10.1	{UCASE}?
7.1.10.2	{LCASE}?
7.1.10.3	{HYPHEN}
7.1.10.4	{DATE [argument]}?
7.1.10.5	{ROTATE n}?
7.1.10.6	{TIME}?
7.1.10.7	{ZIPCODE}?
7.2	MESSAGE
7.3	DELAY
7.4	CLEAR
Chapter 8
8	Data Entry User Interface
8.1	INPUT Statement
8.1.1	Types of INPUT Statements
8.1.2	INPUT Styles
8.2	INPUT Options
8.3	INPUT Commands and Keystrokes Available to the User
8.3.1	Editing Input
8.4	Inputting Strings
8.5	Inputting Multiple Variables
8.5.1	Simple Input Statement
8.5.2	LINE INPUT Statement
8.6	INPUT Default Prompt and Text
8.7	PROMPT Option
8.8	AT Option
8.9	ATTRIBUTES option
8.10	LENGTH Option
8.11	DEFAULT Option
8.11.1	Pre-positioning to a DEFAULT Menu Item
8.12	ERASE Option
8.13	VALID Option
8.14	TIMEOUT Option
8.15	AREA Option
8.16	INPUT DIALOGBOX Option
8.17	SCREEN Option
8.17.1	Screen Format Characters
8.17.2	Screen Format Options
8.17.3	The User's Response to the SCREEN Option
8.18	MENU Option
8.18.1	Items
8.18.1.1	Descriptions
8.18.1.2	Data Value
8.18.2	Submenu Indicator
8.18.3	Menu Directives
8.18.4	User Interface
8.19	KEY INPUT
Chapter 9
9	Input Dialogbox - Creating GUI Forms with SheerPower
9.1	INPUT DIALOGBOX Statement
9.2	Parsing Input Dialogbox Results
9.3	Input Dialogbox Directives
9.4	Supported HTML Tags and Attributes
9.4.1	SheerPower Tag - <sheerpower>
9.4.1.1	SheerPower tag attributes - COLOR, HEIGHT, WIDTH, TITLE
9.4.1.2	SheerPower Tag Attribute - Background
9.4.1.3	SheerPower Tag Attributes - SRC
9.4.1.4	SheerPower Tag Attributes - AUTOSUBMIT
9.4.1.5	SheerPower Tag Attributes - AUTOSCALE
9.4.1.6	SheerPower Tag Attributes - ATTACHED
9.4.1.7	SheerPower Tag Attributes - TYPE
9.4.1.8	Specifying a Root-Level for the Browsing of Files
9.4.2	Form Tags
9.4.2.1	FORM
9.4.2.2	ANCHORS
9.4.2.3	INPUT
9.4.2.4	Creating Custom SUBMIT Buttons
9.4.2.5	Image Submit Buttons
9.4.2.6	SELECT
9.4.2.7	TEXTAREA
9.4.3	Formatting Tags
9.4.3.1	CENTER
9.4.3.2	PARAGRAPH
9.4.3.3	LINE BREAK
9.4.3.4	ORDERED LIST
9.4.3.5	UNORDERED LIST
9.4.3.6	HORIZONTAL RULE
9.4.3.7	INLINE IMAGE
9.4.3.8	DIVISION
9.4.4	Text Formatting Tags
9.4.4.1	FONT
9.4.4.2	HEADINGS
9.4.4.3	BOLD
9.4.4.4	ITALIC
9.4.4.5	EMPHASIZED
9.4.4.6	PREFORMATTED TEXT
9.4.4.7	ADDRESS
9.4.4.8	BLOCKQUOTE
9.4.5	Table Tags
9.4.5.1	TABLE
9.4.5.2	TABLE HEADER
9.4.5.3	TABLE ROW
9.4.5.4	TABLE DATA
9.5	Inserting Variable Data into a Form
9.6	Storing Selections from a Form into Variables
9.7	Performing Data Record Lookups and Updating the Record