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ADM Reference

showMessageProcedure

Procedure used by Progress Dynamics override for showMessage function to use Progress 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.

Location: smart.p

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 or FALSE (Question or YesNo), or TRUE/FALSE/UNDEFINED (YesNoCancel).

Notes: None

Examples:

showMessageProcedure ("Is this not a nice &1 &2 message?", "short", "sample", "Question").