indicator - display application specific alarms and/or the "working" indicator
SYNOPSIS
indicator
[
-b
[
n
] ] [
-c column
] [
-l length
] [
-o
]
[
-w
] [
string ... ]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWcsu
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.
Markup created by unroff 1.0, February 26, 1999.