NORMAL

Items can be displayed in an inverse video mode on an image. In contrast, NORMAL is used to display an item in a NORMAL video mode.

    ••••• NORMAL   ••• •••••••••••••••••••••• ••• (AT APPEARANCE # •••)
    (1)            (2) (3)                    (4)                  (5)

Using the Statement

The appearance number can be used if the same field appears more than once on the image.

If the application ID, field name, occurrence number, and appearance number are not specified (left blank), the NORMAL statement affects all of the items painted on the associated image.

NORMAL is one of the characteristic-type statements. Refer to the common attributes of all the statements in this category in the Characteristic-Type Statements section of this manual.

The operation of a NORMAL statement affects only the next generation of an image. In other words, the item characteristics are reset each time an image is produced.

Restrictions

Note that because characteristic statements operate on items rather than fields, they are only meaningful in event points that are associated with an image.

NORMAL is a terminal display attribute only and therefore is not allowed on images in output processes.

Statement Ignored

The system ignores any NORMAL statements specified in non-image event points.

Related Statements

BLANK, BLINK, BOLD, BRIGHT, COLOR, DIM, DISPLAY, FONT, INVERSE, NO BOLD, NO ULINE, PICTURE, ULINE

Example

The example below “turns off” inverse video for the customer’s name.

          NORMAL   TAR CUSTOMER NAME              (AT APPEARANCE #    )
          DISPLAY  TAR CUSTOMER NAME              (AT APPEARANCE #    )