When visually designing programs it may useful to emphasize portions of display text using formatting such as Normal, Bold, Reverse, or Bold & Reverse characters as well as text colors. This can help visually seperate and distinguish text displayed to the user.

DETAILS

Embedding the following control characters in the Text you wish to display will format the appearance of the text.

Control Character Table
Control Character	Text Display Effect	Terminals
\B	Bold	CE, Pocket PC
\R	Reverse	CE, Pocket PC, Supported DOS
\V	Bold And Reverse	CE, Pocket PC
\N	Normal	CE, Pocket PC, Supported DOS

Color Control Character Table
Control Character	Text Display Effect	Terminals
\C0	Black	CE, Pocket PC
\C1	Blue	CE, Pocket PC
\C2	Green	CE, Pocket PC
\C3	Red	CE, Pocket PC
\C4	Yellow	CE, Pocket PC
\C5	Magenta	CE, Pocket PC
\C6	Orange	CE, Pocket PC
\C7	Teal	CE, Pocket PC
\C8	Gray	CE, Pocket PC
\C9	White	CE, Pocket PC

EXAMPLES
Embedded Text	Prompt Value	Displayed
Emp: $EmpNum$	SCT	Emp: SCT
Emp: \B$EmpNum$	SCT	Emp: SCT
Emp: \C1$EmpNum$	SCT	Emp: SCT
Emp: \B\C1$EmpNum$	SCT	Emp: SCT

This article last updated: 1/1/2009 12:00:00 AM