Panel-Text

This property is used to set the text shown in the panel identified by the Panel-Index property.

When values are enclosed between parentheses, the Panel-Index property is ignored, the 1st value refers to the 1st panel, the 2nd value refers to the 2nd panel and so on.

 

Example - Define a status-bar with 2 panels, each one with different text

working-storage section. 77 screen-1-st-2-hdl handle of status-bar. ... procedure division. ... *> Display a Window first to display the status-bar upon it ...   display status-bar           font Default-Font           background-color 7           foreground-color 3           panel-widths ( 30 50)           panel-style ( 1 2)           panel-alignment ( "U" "U")           panel-bitmap ( icon-png2 icon-png2)           panel-bitmap-width ( 18 18)           panel-bitmap-number ( 4 5)           panel-bitmap-alignment ( "U" "U")           handle screen-1-st-2-hdl           .   modify screen-1-st-2-hdl      panel-index 1      panel-text "Date: "      panel-hint "This is the current system date"      panel-color 516      panel-index 2      panel-text "Screen Status: "      panel-hint "This is the status of the program"   .