Re: Status Line question - Forms 4.5

I hope this helps.

You can use the MESSAGE command with the NO_ACKNOWLEDGE (this stops the message from being raised to an alert if another message is displayed before the user has interacted with the form - cursor move etc...) parameter.
This will only display what you want until forms or yourself displays another message. You can get around this if you are willing to only display the the message while the cursor is on the item in question by doing the following:

1. Set the items display hint property to FALSE.
2. Create a WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE trigger on the item in question, and create/display your message.

NOTE: The MESSAGE command only accepts character strings, no numbers or

         dates. So you have to do a TO_CHAR (remember DD-MON-RR).

Wright Laboratory <dobbsra_at_wl.wpafb.af.mil> wrote in article <01bcdf1a$3fe75440$751f8386_at_dobbsra>...
> Is it possible to put a message on the status line? The application I'm
> working on uses dates that are displayed in the format of 'RRDDD'. I'd
> like to be able to put the current date on the status line so that a lay
> person could read it.
> --
> Becky Dobbs
>
  Received on Sat Oct 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST