RE: formatting message content

Arco:

I think that your problem is that the 'formatting' characters are only valid 
within the second-level text of the message. You can use messaging APIs to send 
messages to displays, but the formatting would only happen if the user presses 
[F1] to see the second-level text.

As far as I know, there are no APIs to display the formatted second-level text 
by itself. You will have to create your own.

(But I'd sure like to know if anyone has a better answer.)

Tom Liotta

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   2. RE: formatting message content (Simonse, Arco (CMK))
>
>I realize that I did not make myself very clear. Sorry for that.
>I do already use QMHRTVM. I get the message text from the message file,
>formatted with the format characters and containing the substituted
>variables.
>But once I have it, I want to display the message text to the user. And
>there is the problem. Do I have to parse the text into display fields
>and show it by executing a display format, or is there somewhere an API
>or command that displays a message to the user? It is not enough to add
>the message to the msgq of the user, it has to be a kind of
>break-message because it's neccessary that the user takes notice of the
>message immediately.