Re: Colored Break Messages

["Mark Walter" <mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was able to send formatted messages to a program message queue from an RPG
program by concatenating the hex equivalent of the display attribute into
the space before the character I wished to format. I've never tried it in a
CL program to send a break message.
-----Original Message-----
From: James W Kilgore <email@james-w-kilgore.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Colored Break Messages


>I've never tried adding color to messages, but how about when you define
>your error message you include places for variables and pass the hex
>codes?
>
>Janet Nelson wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know how to send a "colored" break message?
>> In the past, I have received critical error messages
>> (i.e. disk failures) in red text.  I am familar with
>> the hexidecimal codes used for coloring screen text.
>> I have successfully used these hex codes in DDS and
>> within source members.  However, if I try to use
>> these hex codes as part of a string for a break message,
>> it is unsuccessful.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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