Re: Message function

[Quoted] In article <36125d67.30789935_at_news.dircon.co.uk>,   jeremyr_at_no-spam-today-thanks.dircon.co.uk wrote:
> Using forms 4.5 on Personal Oracle 8.0.4, I'm not seeing any output
> from the 'message' function! Where should I be seeing this and is
> there an option I ought to be setting to make the message text
> display?
>
> TIA
>
> Jeremy Russell
>

Jeremy,

From what I remember the Message function outputs to the hint text line at the bottom of your form, if you want to display a message box in the middle of your screen (presumably you are using it for de-bugging) then to guarantee it is displayed, try adding a second message e,g, MESSAGE(' '); directly after the message you wanted displayed as a message box on the screen. You will also get the second message with nothing displayed but it's the second message that forces the first to be displayed. In the past I've tried just one message with ACKNOWLEDGE as the second parameter but that doesn't seem to force the message to be displayed as a message box so the above workaround is all we've come up with. If you are not using message for de-bugging then to avioid having two messages displayed one after the other you should really be using ALERTS. Hope the above helps

Regards

Gareth

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