Displaying the Grid-Line Screen Format

To store the grid-line screen format into the grid-line information buffer, the grid-line draw control code is used. The application program on the host system is required to specify the following information about the grid-line information buffers:
  • Which buffer is used to store the grid-line screen definition data
  • Which buffer is used to display the grid-line screen definition data

To specify which buffer to be used, the character data F or B with the non-display attribute should be set at the designated position in the grid-line screen-format data and the character data.

The grid-line screen format is not displayed when its format gets stored into the buffer. It is displayed when the character data that contains the F or B with the non-display attribute is received at the specified position.

Refer to Grid-Line Screen-Format Displaying Mechanism.