Re: On-Message trigger works?

It appears to me on reading the ref. manuals (forms 4.5.5) that ON-MESSAGE only works when a runform generated message is displayed. As in "FRM-40654: Record has been updated by..."

It doesn't run when the form issues a message via the MESSAGE built-in. It sounds like you are trying to get your MESSAGE built-in messages to print on :button_bar.status_line. In that case, you would need to change each MESSAGE command in the form to set :button_bar.status_line, as well as use the On-Message trigger for system messages.

Read the GET_MESSAGE documentation. That might help.

I'm not sure about any of this, but it may help. Steve Cosner (stevec_at_csufresno.edu)

In article <dsulliva.28.2FF42A08_at_AFIT.AF.MIL> dsulliva_at_AFIT.AF.MIL (David J. Sullivan) writes:
>I want to capture the messages on the status line of the console window and
>display them elsewhere. (Status line is too small at the resolution we
>are designing in.) The On-Message trigger at the form level seems to fit the
>bill, only problem is it doen't work. Am I doing something wrong, or am I
>barking up the wrong tree? Details follow.
>
>Dave
>
>Trigger text (From level ON-MESSAGE trigger):
>:button_bar.status_line := MESSAGE_TEXT; (display item in button_bar block)
>
>Forms info:
>Form 4.5.6.0.7 for Windows
Received on Fri Jun 30 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST