
2600AS-901-01 Rev. B / September 2008
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Section 19: Remote Commands
display.setcursor
Function
Sets the position of the cursor.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage
There are two ways to use this function:
display.setcursor(row, column)
display.setcursor(row, column, style)
row
Set
row
number for the cursor (1 or 2).
column
Set
column
number for the cursor. For row 1,
column
can
be set from 1 to 20. For row 2, it can be set from 1 to 32.
style
Set
cursor
style
to be invisible (0) or blink (1).
Remarks
• Sending this command selects the user screen and then moves the cursor to the given location.
• An out of range parameter for
row
will set the cursor to row 2. An out of range parameter for
column
will set the cursor to column 20 (for row 1) or 32 (for row 2).
• An out of range parameter for
style
sets it to 0 (invisible).
• A blinking cursor will only be visible when it is positioned over displayed text. It cannot be seen
when positioned over a space character.
• The
display.clear, display.setcursor,
and
display.settext
functions are
overlapped, non-blocking commands. That is, the script will NOT wait for one of these
commands to complete. These non-blocking functions do not immediately update the display.
For performance considerations, they write to a shadow and will update the display as soon as
processing time becomes available.
Details
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in
Also see
,
Example
Positions cursor on row 2 column 1:
display.setcursor(2, 1)
display.settext
Function
Displays text on the user screen.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage
display.settext(text)
text
Text message string to be displayed.