Hello all,

In what a way can I insert separators into newline in function 4GL message()?

message("First line" & chr$(10) & "Second line")

Unfortunately, this doesn' t work
Both lines split into one with a pipe line (|) between them.

Oops, I see that now, too. I know that this used to work this way, because I used it several times while writing customizations for our customers. Maybe the version of BW client has to do something about it.

However, try using this one:


message("First line\nSecond line")

It works!!!
Thank you very much for your efficiency

Note: the \n only works in bw, in ASCII you should have to fill the line with spaces to get a newline (at least that is the way I did it once)...

I tried "\n" in BaaN ERP, but this doesn' t work
can I insert separators into newline in baan V?

Natasha,

It works for me in BaaN-5.2

function main()
{
message("Hello \n World")
}

I used function change.progress.indicator()



progress.number = "line1 \n line2"
change.progress.indicator(0, progress.number)


this doesn' t work :(

In what a way can I insert separators in this choice?

I'm not on ERP but at a guess I'd say that the progress indicator has only been designed to be on one line on the screen?

Regards,
Rupert

If you write something like change.progress.indicator(0, progress.number1, progress.number2) it should work see part of documentation below.

long change.progress.indicator( long percentage [, string message, ...] )

message This optional argument displays a string that provides information about the progress of the operation. For example, if the process involves multiple stages, you could add a short description of each stage to the progress indicator.If you include more than one message argument, each successive message is displayed below the previous one.

As Tomas suggested you can use the "..." arguments to have multiple lines in the progress indicator -

Here is a sample code-

e = create.progress.indicator("Matching Pattern in Program Scripts...")
....
e = change.progress.indicator(0, "Package-"& ttadv230.cpac,
"Module-" & ttadv230.cmod,
"Script-" & ttadv230.cprs )
...
destroy.progress.indicator()