Marquee Control Characters

The Header, Footer, and Empty message fields may include the following control characters. Note that not all marquees support all these control characters.

%\n

newline

%\r

carriage return

%\b

backspace

%\v

vertical tab

%\t

horizontal tab

%\f

formfeed

%^[

generates an escape

%^<character>

generates a control character for any alphabetic character

%x<xx>

generates any hex character between 00-FF. <xx> should be the 2 hex characters.

 

To generate the null character (00), you must configure the MARQ_RESERVED_NULL_CHAR global parameter .

%<xx>

generates the control characters you specified for message attribute <xx> in the Message Attributes box, where <xx> is a two-digit number between 01 and 25. For example, to generate the control characters you specified for fifth attribute in the list, enter %05.

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3. Add a Marquee device.