Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Messaging and ESB

setText procedure

Clears the message body and sets a new text value.

Syntax

PROCEDURE setText. DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER textValue AS CHARACTER.

Applies to

Message objects

Notes

The call can be made when the message is in write-only or read-only mode.
After the call, the message is in write-only mode, and additional the appendText procedure calls can be made to append more text.
As an alternative to concatenating multiple CHARACTER segments with the appendText procedure, use the setLongText procedure.

See also

createTextMessage procedure, setText procedure, setLongText procedure, appendText procedure, endOfStream function, getCharCount function, getText function, getTextSegment function, getLongText function, getLongTextCP function

For more information, see the "TextMessage" section.