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ADM 2 Reference


showMessageProcedure (smart.p)

Dynamics override for showMessage function to use Dynamics message handling routines. By default using a simple MESSAGE statement, displays either a literal message string, or a message number that is returned by the messageNumber function. The user’s button choice is returned in the OUTPUT parameter.

Parameters:

INPUT pcMessage AS CHARACTER

Either a literal message string, or a message number in string form. A message number can be followed by a comma-separated list with up to 10 entries. All the entries except the last are used as replacements for parameters of form ‘&n’ in the message string, where n is some number in the range 1 - 9. The last entry must be ‘Question’, ‘YesNo’, or ‘YesNoCancel’, which determines which buttons are provided in the message box.

OUTPUT plAnswer AS LOGICAL

The user’s choice of button: true/false (‘Question’ or ‘YesNo’), or true/false/undefined (‘YesNoCancel’)

Returns: Nothing (procedure).

Notes: None.

Examples:

showMessageProcedure ("Isn’t this a nice &1 &2 message?", "short", "sample", 
"Question"). 


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