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Carel,Interesting suggestion, but the requirement is to be able to put the formatted text into a variable, to display on a regular DSPF. IIRC, that API is a pop-up that overlays the screen.
I ended up writing a routine to do it and put it into a *SRVPGM. -mark At 10/1/05 09:34 AM, you wrote:
Sorry for the late reply, beiong away for a short vacation.Have you tried to use the Display Long Message API? It can be found under the User Interface APIs part of the manuals. I do not know how it deal with the formatiing codes, but it shows the text in its own window (IIRC seventy characters per line).Regards, Carel Teijgeler *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 25-9-05 at 18:12 M. Lazarus wrote: >Is there an API to format retrieved message text? I mean resolving the >&N, &B, &P codes. If no API is available, does anyone have a routine to do >this? It's not a huge deal to write one, but I would rather avoid >reinventing the wheel. Thanks.
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