The insert drawing statement lets you add text to a textual region from several different sources. You can insert a string value, a specified segment or block of text from another textual region, an ASCII text file, or a color-attributed file.

 

As mentioned in Moving the Text Cursor, you can move the cursor to any character position, whether or not any text is there. If text is added to a textual region at a location where there is no text, ESL will insert the necessary blanks prior to the text cursor. For example, if the textual region is empty, and you specify:

 

add to Greeting

    move to column 5 line 5

    insert "Hello"

 

when this statement is executed, the text cursor moves to column

5, line 5, and new lines and blanks are automatically inserted as shown below:

 

 

In these examples, padded blanks are shown by a caret (^).