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Al, would it be possible to send certain messages to a dataque and have a program sitting, waiting for an entry. If the entry comes, write a window with a flashing yellow border and a red, white, and blue striped background with the message in a blinking black, The Alarm could beep 11teen times, too.
- -----Original Message-----
- From: Weatherly, Howard [mailto:hweatherly@dlsc.dla.mil]
- Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:43 AM
- To: boothm@goddard.edu
- Subject: RE: Color in messages
Ya that would work if we were writing programs or screens but what we need to do since our operator suffers from selective vision is highlight some of the messages that occur when a comm line goes down or the like, so what we were thinking was just go into the message file and add the highlight attribute and terminator to the message. This is where the system or rather the console ignores the characters and produces a blob. (Al did you mean to send something in that message? it did not come through :) ) ----------
From: Bale, Dan[SMTP:DBale@TFSA.Textron.com] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 1:47 PM To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' Subject: RE: Color in messages
Ah, yes, I remember that problem well!
The way to get around this problem is to define a message field for each color change you want to display in the message. In other words, if you want to display a message: "Customer ID 155675 not found on file" and you want "155675" to be highlighted/colorized, then your message description would look like: "Customer ID &1 not found on file". Field &1 in your message description would be defined as (at least) 8-character. Your program would fill this field by pasting the display attribute characters at the beginning and the end of the 8-character field, and put the customer ID in starting at position 2; probably best set up in a data structure, i.e.: d msgdata ds d hilite 1 1a Inz(x'22') d CustomerID 2 7a d normal 8 8a Inz(x'20')
I seem to recall that the display attribute only shows up in the message that appears in the message subfile window; if you hit help on a message like that, the "blob" character will appear with the message on the "Additional Message Information" display.
HTH, Dan Bale
-----Original Message----- From: Weatherly, Howard [mailto:hweatherly@dlsc.dla.mil] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 10:55 AM To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' Subject: RE: Color in messages
Thanks for the info on the codes for color to all, now I have a more perplexing problem! when I concatenate the code to the message all I get is a blob character then the message, the system consoles are color. Does anyone have any idea about this? Ultimately we want to add the codes to the message files so certain messages stand out! TIA Howard ---------- From: Boris Goldenberg[SMTP:bpcsguru@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 8:14 AM To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com Subject: Re: Color in messages I believe hex 20 returns to normal. After that 21, 22 23, etc give you different attributes like red, blue, yellow, blinking, underline etc.. --- "Weatherly, Howard" <hweatherly@dlsc.dla.mil> wrote: > I know this has been covered before, unfortunately I have lost my email so
> many times and can't find it. > > We would like to add color to messages coming out of programs etc.. Our > thought was to add the hex characters in the message file also we wanted to > be able to send message from programs in color using any f the snd???msg > command in TAA or the QSNDMSG from a program. What I am lacking is the hex
> color equivalents. > > Anyone? > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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