Re: Message function

Which of course supposes that you have a hint line - which under Win98 can be effectively removed by setting the form's console window property to <NULL>. When you reset it to the main window - lo and behold, hint line and messages!

Thanks - you set me on the right track!!

JR

garethgadd_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:

>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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Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 23:56:52 CEST