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This dialog lets you quickly choose and customize a picture token.

Picture tokens provide a masking format for displaying and editing variables. Picture tokens may be used as parameters of STRING, ENTRY, or STRING OPTION declarations in SCREEN structures; as a parameter of STRING statements in a REPORT structure; as a parameter of some Clarion procedures and functions; or, the parameter of STRING, CSTRING and PSTRING variable declarations. There are seven types of picture tokens:

Numeric and Currency Pictures

Scientific Notation Pictures

Date Pictures

Time Pictures

Pattern Pictures

Key-in Template Pictures

String Pictures

Pool Select a Pool picture from the drop list.
Save Press this button to save the current picture to the Picture Pool
Delete Press this button to remove the current picture from the Picture Pool
Picture The actual picture string under construction.You can directly edit the string, or edit it by specifying options in the dynamic controls that appear in the lower part of the dialog box for individual picture token types.The options are self explanatory, such as Number of Characters, Length, and Decimal Places.
Type Choose one of the picture token types from the drop down list.
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