Manual page for indicator(1F)
indicator - display application specific alarms and/or the "working" indicator
SYNOPSIS
indicator
[
-b
[
n
] ] [
-c column
] [
-l length
] [
-o
]
[
-w
] [
string ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The indicator function displays application specific alarms or the
"working" indicator, or both, on the
FMLI
banner line.
The argument string is a string to be displayed on the banner line,
and should always be the last argument given.
Note that string is not automatically cleared from the banner line.
OPTIONS
- -bn
-
The
-b
option rings the terminal bell
n
times, where
n
is an integer from 1 to 10.
The default value is 1.
If the terminal has no bell, the screen is flashed instead,
if possible.
- -c column
-
The
-c
option defines the column of the banner line
at which to start the indicator string.
The argument
column
must be an integer from
0
to
DISPLAYW-1.
If the
-c
option is not used,
column
defaults to
0 .
- -l length
-
The
-l
option defines the maximum length of the string displayed.
If
string
is longer than
length
characters, it will be truncated.
The argument
length
must be an integer from
1
to
DISPLAYW.
If the
-l
option is not used,
length
defaults to
DISPLAYW.
Note that if
string
doesn't fit it will be truncated.
- -o
-
The
-o
option causes
indicator
to duplicate its output to
stdout .
- -w
-
The
-w
option turns on the "working" indicator.
EXAMPLES
When the value entered in a form field is invalid,
the following use of indicator will
ring the bell three times and display the word
WRONG
starting at column 1 of the banner line.
-
invalidmsg=`indicator -b 3 -c 1 "WRONG"`
To clear the indicator after telling the user the entry is wrong:
-
invalidmsg=`indicator -b 9 -c 1 "WRONG"; sleep 3;
indicator -c 1 " "`
In this example the value of invalidmsg (in this case the
default value Input is not valid),
still appears on the
FMLI
message line.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
