Glcd contains a parser to enable getting information from the rest of the system. The parser parses the text in some properties, eg the text property of the text input module. A piece of text between round brackets is a piece of text to be parsed. (When you want literal round brackets in your text, please escape them: '\(' & '\)' ) Those pieces of text are structured as follows (method:arg1:arg2:arg3:...) The methods are described in doc/parser/*. In the arguments, please remember these chars have to be escaped by prepending them with a \: '\' '(' ')' ':'