Re: Forms 4.5 Console window's Message_line

Hi,
I am reposting this query. Can someone help, please ? Thanks
Sanjay
In article <7kf9jp$jsp$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   sdattatri_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi,
> A long question, thanks for your patience.
>
> One requirement from the customer has been that they do not want
> to see the console window for the error messages and hints and we
> should provide a status field at the bottom of each window that
> shows the hint and error messages.
>
> We have done this as follows.
>
> For Messages:
> Use a function called p_message(message string) which finds the
current
> window's status field and fills it up with the message string.
>
> For hints:
> We have used a function similar to p_message called p_hint
> which is called in every when_new_item_instance which extracts
> the cursor_item's hint and displays it in the message field.
>
> Problem :
> ==========
> When p_message is called and immediately there is a go_item(),
> then the message is overridden by the hint.
> (This behaviour is not seen in the console's message_line - Forms 4.5
> intelligently suppresses the hint until such time that the
> user presses tab, arrow keys, etc.)
>
> In order to solve this problem, we set a global variable in p_message
> that suppressed the subsequent hint message.
>
> Now we have another problem because of this:
>
> When a when validate fails, we display something like "invalid
> value. FIND Available". Then the user enters the correct value
> and moves to the next field. Because p_hint is suppressed now,
> the hint does not come and it still says "invalid value...".
> This can be quite misleading to the user.
>
> CAn anyone tell me how to get around this problem.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Sanjay
> sdattatri_at_vsnl.com
>
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