techique required

[arthur kogan]

Hi John,

I was trying to experiment with the ghost screen last night, before receiving
the e-mail suggestions for including "Bell" in the message. For some reason,
neither "error", "warning" or "severe" worked. With "info", the only time it
worked was when I used the "now response" option, as in the following
example:

screen test1 nomode noaction
hilite info audible
procedure initial
begin
   info "   " now response
   return
end
build

Now, obviously the "now response" option did not suit me. But it does not
seem to work any other way I have tried. Maybe Bob Deskin can explain why.

Regards and thanks to all the people that have responded.

Arthur Kogan
Westpac Financial Services
Sydney, Australia

pickerij@norbord.com wrote:

> >So, how can I restrict the AUDIBLE option to this particular message
> only?
>
> Coding the bell in the message as others have suggested will work but
> you'll have to use a termtype which includes the "-any" parameter. The
> down side to this is that Quick will then accept *any*thing the user
> enters in text fields (tabs, escapes, alt-anything instead
> shift-anything) and then when you print or display the contents of these
> fields almost anything is possible. Just for fun, try an upper case e but
> use the alt key instead of the shift key :-)
>
> An alternate solution would be to have the initialize procedure call a
> tiny little ghost screen whose initialize procedure does nothing but
> issue the message and then return. That screen can have whatever hilite
> options you'd like.
>
> John Pickering
> Toronto



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