RE: Color in messages

["Weatherly, Howard" <hweatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: 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 :) )

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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
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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?
>
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