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RE: Message text formatting

I understand now. And I'm sorry, I don't know of any way to do this
automatically through an API or anything currently built. When I've done
so (colours also, for example) I've done it the brute force way
(embedding hex codes that work on the terminal type I'm using).

I would love to know if there is a more global answer.

JPW

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M. Lazarus
Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 11:52
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Message text formatting


Jim,

  If you do a DSPMSG, and get to the 2nd level text, you'll see that
it's 
formatted nicely, w/ paragraphs, indents, etc.  This is accomplished by
the 
system via those embedded codes.  I would like to duplicate that 
functionality when I display a msg through a regular field in my
program.

  -mark

At 9/25/05 07:47 PM, you wrote:
>Gotcha -
>
>So I'm curious then what you mean by 'Formatting the received message
>text' then. I guess you are saying that a message has come in with
these
>characters embedded. What is it you plan to do with that data that
>requires you to handle these characters?
>
>JPW
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M. Lazarus
>Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 11:40
>To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>Subject: RE: Message text formatting
>
>
>Jim,
>
>   I think that it's the "QMHRTVM - Retrieve Message" API.  I'm
referring
>to
>the paragraph formatting characters, not the message data characters.
>
>   -mark
>
>At 9/25/05 07:27 PM, you wrote:
> >I've worked a lot with formatting message text, but I'm not sure I
> >completely understand your question. Could you give an example of
where
> >you are getting the &N &B etc.?
> >
> >One API that I think you might need is QMHRTVM - Retrieve Message. It
> >will take a message text in parm form and expand it out into full
text.
> >You will have to know where the message file is that has that message
>ID
> >in it though....
> >
> >JPW
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M. Lazarus
> >Sent: Monday, 26 September 2005 10:13
> >To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Message text formatting
> >
> >
> >   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.
> >
> >   -mark
> >
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