Creating alerts at run time

[Quoted] [Quoted]   Our current forms use the MESSAGE built-in to display error messages. When people are doing data entry and a message comes up, they might hit the enter key as part of their processing and never see the message. What we want is an alert-type screen that has more than one button so that we can place the focus on something other than OK in order to make it more difficult for them to miss the error message. Something like this:

    while key pressed != 'OK'
    loop
      display message
    end loop

With this scheme they would have to change the focus from the non-OK button, ensuring that they have seen the message.

  An alert would work just fine for this. In order to make the integration of this new message processing easier we had hoped to put the creation of the alert and the loop in a .PLL file so the only change to the application would be to change MESSAGE to NEW_MESSAGE in the application's code.

  I can't find any documentation on creating alerts at run time. Is there a way to do that, or some other ideas on how to handle this situation?

  The applications run in a noisy environment, so having the application make a different sound might not work.

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Before you buy. Received on Mon Nov 06 2000 - 17:36:34 CET