Starting control characters

The following characters can be used in the panel file to define the starting control parameters in the panel you want to customize.

Control characters	ASCII code	Description
*	42	Start of a 2-byte integer field that ranges from 32768 to 32767.
~	126	Start of a 4-byte integer field that ranges from 2147483648 to 2147483647.
`	239	Start of 4-byte real field that ranges from 1.175494e-38 to 3.402823e38.
$	36	Start of a text field.
"	34	Start of a time field: Hours, minutes, and seconds displayed for example as HHMMSS. The field can contain separator characters such as HH:MM:SS. If the defined field is too small, the values are truncated from the left to the right.
^	94	Start of a date field: Year, month, and day displayed for example as YYMMDD. The field can contain separator characters such as YY/MM/DD. If the defined field is too small, the values are truncated from the left to the right.
¨	249	Start of a centihour field: Hours, minutes and seconds displayed for example as HHMMSS. The field can contain separator characters such as HH:MM:SS. If the defined field is too small, the values are truncated from the left to the right.
§	21	Start of a right-aligned static text field.