Re: Error Checking

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:59 08/01/98 -0700, Erick wrote:
>I have a question concerning error checking techniques using display
>files. Currently, I can utilize a custom message file and message
>subfile to display the error messages. This works fine. But another
>technique that I do not really utilize is the VALUES keyword in DDS. If
>an invalid value is entered I get an error message that displays
>something like "Invalid value entered. Valid values in message help." I
>like the immediacy of the VALUE message, but the error message is of
>little or no value. Can this message but customized?

You could user OVRMSGF to substitute your own message, however if you press F1, 
the standard message really does display the valid values...

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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