REVERSE attribute

The REVERSE attribute displays any value in the field in reverse video (dark characters in a bright field).

Syntax

REVERSE

Usage

Use the REVERSE attribute to highlight specific fields in your forms.

On graphical front-ends, the REVERSE attribute is rendered by using the field COLOR attribute as background color. If the COLOR attribute is not defined, the reverse color defaults to gray.

Note: For the predefined (TTY) color names (like blue, red, yellow), the actual rendering color used by the front-ends is adapted to the reverse or normal mode: In normal mode, colors like "yellow" must be darker, to make the foreground text easily readable on an white background. In reverse mode (where the color specification applies to the background), the actual background color must be lighter, so that the black foreground text can be read more easily.

On character based terminals, the REVERSE video escape sequences must be defined in the TERMINFO or TERMCAP databases.

Example

EDIT f001 = customer.name, COLOR = BLUE, REVERSE;