Re: Change color of Messages

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/08/2008, at 4:38 AM, Crispin Bates wrote:

> Does anyone know if it is possible to change the color of the  
> message text send using SNDMSG?
>
> I thought that perhaps something like...
>
> CHGVAR %SST(&MSG 1 1) &HEX
> CHGVAR %SST(&MSG 2 99) &TEXT
> SNDMSG     MSG(&MSG) TOUSR(CRISPIN)
>
> ..might work, where &HEX = X'28' (RED).
>
> It appears not...
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.

Depends on where the message is displayed. Works OK when sent as a  
*STATUS message to the external queue of the job. I think it still  
works OK when sent to a message subfile. Won't work when sent to a  
UIM display (such as DSPMSG panel). This technique used to work ...  
on System/38. OS/400 has specific support to remove such shenanigans-- 
not sure of the rationale behind that behaviour.

Can't even embed colour in object text any more either.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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