 			          F P A I N T  .                                  John Sinclair,                                    Mark Geib2                               Inland Steel Company-                                   10-Oct-1986   B 	FPAINT is a screen designing and data entry system, complete withB 	forms editor, that allows you to design screens interactively andB 	separately from the job of designing the rest of a program. WhileD 	this is conceptually somewhat similar to packages like FMS or TDMS,@ 	FPAINT generates code which performs the desired manipulations,C 	rather than doing it interpretively at runtime as the DEC products D 	do. FPAINT uses SMG$ routines to assure terminal independence under 	VMS.   2      Using FPaint Screens - general considerations    K           FPaint builds a  package  of  FORTRAN  subroutines  that  may  be K      considered  the  abstraction  of a data entry screen.  Each screen has #      the following characteristics:   A           - A five character name ( referred to below as <NAME> )   >           - A specific height (in rows) and width (in columns)  )           - A number of fixed text fields   >           - A number of data fields of varying characteristics             - A screen help line      H      In addition, the following operations may be performed on a screen:  @           - Clear        - clear the area occupied by the screen  .           - Display Text - display screen text  =           - Display Data - display screen data field contents   ;           - Edit         - begin edit of screen data fields   :           - Validate     - validate all screen data fields    K           Using an FPaint screen successfully therefore depends on invoking <      the  above routines properly and in the correct order. 