Rockwell Automation 8520-9API 9/Series OCI API Developer's Guide - Manual (Page 44)

3–23 OCI Basic Display Set (BDS)
Publication 8520-6.6 - August 1999
A file is created only for the currently active language on the Basic
Display Set. Use the {SWITCH LANG} softkey to change the Basic
Display Sets displayed language and create different language print
files.
Since the pointer file PD_PTR’s is identical for all languages the
print PD_Ptr’s selection always creates the file PD_ptr.pd.
The following screen shows an example of the English.sft file which
is compiled from the English softkey tables. This file uses tab
characters to indicate different levels of the softkey tree. It also
shows the softkey number to the right of the text.
This next screen example shows the English.spd file which is
compiled from the English softkey text file combined with the
pointer information and softkey tree structure. This file uses
“?”characters to separate different softkey names from the same
softkey rack. Below each softkey rack is pointer information for the
first thru seventh softkey (includes back and more softkeys) and the
softkey text pointer number.