| Playing with Scan Codes |
| QTIPS - Compiling Protection Code |
| QTIPS - Invalid Code and Command |
| QTIPS - Code/Command Help |
| Compiling 64K on a Shoestring by Blaise Wrenn (LexStat Systems Ltd) |
| QTIPS - Command Line Options |
| QTIPS - Invalid Code and Command |
| QTIPS - Code/Command Help |
| Utility Diskette # 4 |
| Simple Security |
| QTIPS - Hiding Symbolic Source Code |
| Using One Dictionary With Multiple Tables - Aaron Kaplan - SoftMart Inc |
| QTIPS - Border.Colour |
| QTIPS - Overriding Menu Colours |
| Utility Diskette # 3 - Part II |
| QTIPS - Query Windows - Changing Colours |
| RTP Series - RTP38 |
| VERBatim - V124 |
| Rebuilding Indexes |
| QTIPS - Make.Index 2.11+ |
| Index Flush |
| Caching in on the Frames Array - Mike Pope |
RevMedia FKB
| Document | V4I1A3 |
| Title | QTIPS - Improving the Message Window |
| Keywords | MESSAGE MSG SYS.POPUPS |
| Text | Peter Walsh writes: Add a test run option (similar to that employed in popup) by painting COMMANDS MESSAGE and putting a code of 'C' and a command of 'CALL MSG("" @RECORD "" "") to the Shift F1 softkey (Note that this will not clean up after a UB type ) To validate user input on a message (using the extended functionality added recently) add a field 15 to the MESSAGES dictionary Add this field to the window and add a code of 'P' and a command of 'SYS POPUPS*INPUT PATTERNS' to the options Add a code of 'P' and a command of 'SYS POPUPS*BORDERS' to the border prompt options To simply add colours to popups create an 'R' type popup in your popup file In the explicit popup information include the literals @AW @EW @HW @PW and @XW Add this popup to the options on the Attrib prompt and experiment to get your favourite colour scheme To allow messages in DIFFERENT files to be edited easily WITH the message window add an N type prompt (with no ASSOCIATED dictionary field) as the first prompt on the window (Editor's Note To so do PAINT COMMANDS MESSAGE then Shift F2 and turn binding off Add a prompt "File name" and size it to suit the files to be used Shift F6 and make the type N instead of F Now save the window and EDIT COMMANDS MESSAGE Mark the "File name" prompt WITH a Ctrl B and move it to be the first prompt in the window Move to the part of the template where the filename is stored (line 22 on a normal message template) and remove the filename leaving the delimeters in place Save the window and at TCL either type TEMPLATE FLUSH or paint and save the window again Your template will now be ready for use) (Volume 4 Issue 1 PAGE 4) |
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