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MSGTEXT <message> [HEADER <header>] [WAIT <wait>] ;
[<top>], [<left>], [<bottom>], [<right>] ;
[COLOR <color>] [SHADOW <mshadow>] [FRAME <mframe>]
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Purpose: Displays a string in a window. The string is wrapped to
fit into the window. Various exit methods are allowed.
The colour is defined in twMsgInit() and the shadow and
frame types default to those of the currently active
window.
Parameters: message - 'C' String to be displayed. The string can
be any length. It is truncated to fit
inside the display window. Such strings
could be held, for instance, in memo
fields.
header - 'C' String to use for the title. In this
version, the title is centered on the
top line of the window.
wait - 'N' 0 - Wait for a key press then restore
the underlying screen.
-1 - Leave the message on the screen
and free the stack allocation
space.
-2 - Leave the message on the screen but
keep it on the stack to be released
later with twMsgEnd().
n - Wait 'n' seconds or until a key is
pressed, then restore the
underlying screen.
Wait defaults to 0.
top, left, bottom,
right - 'N' Screen Coordinates. The defaults are
3,20,13,60.
color - 'C' Clipper Colour String. Text and frame are
displayed in the Clipper standard colour and
the title in the enhanced colour. This
parameter defaults to the value held in the
initialization array for twMsgInit().
mshadow - 'N' TSDWIN shadow type. Defaults to the
shadow type for the currently active
window.
mframe - 'N' TSDWIN frame type. Defaults to the frame
type for the currently active window.
Example: MSGTEXT "This is a text message which " + ;
"gets ripped up into parts and " + ;
"put back together in lines." + ;
" Here's the second line!!!" + ;
" Why no a third too? Bet it'll work!" ;
HEADER "Trying Text Message" ;
WAIT 5 ;
5,10,12,55 ;
COLOR "gr+/b" SHADOW 3 FRAME 6
See Also:
twTextMsg()
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