Differents: Dialog.ShowMsg & Dialog.ShowStatus

Reinhard Dietrich (dietrich@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:17:57 -0700

Hello everybody,

Because of the documentation, I thought there must be a different in the
presentation of the string to the user between Dialog.ShowMsg and
Dialog.ShowStatus. I use a WIN-NT and Win311 as Operating-System. Why has
both procedures the same behaviour? Is this a bug? Or do I use this
procedures wrong?

Thanks for your reply

Reinhard Dietrich

PROCEDURE ShowParamMsg (str, p0, p1, p2: ARRAY OF CHAR)
Presents str as a message to the user. The string is mapped, as are the
additional input parameters p0, p1, and p2. This procedure is used to
present urgent messages to the user, typically alerting the user that some
action has failed. It shouldn't be used for casual success messages.

PROCEDURE ShowParamStatus (str, p0, p1, p2: ARRAY OF CHAR)
Presents str as a message to the user. The string is mapped, as are the
additional input parameters p0, p1, and p2. In contrast to ShowParamMsg,
ShowParamStatus is used for shorter-lived and less urgent messages, e.g.
messages produced and updated during a lengthy process. This procedure
should not be used for vital messages, because on some platforms there may
be no status area to display status messages, or the message mechanism may
currently be switched off. These conditions are indicated by the global
variable showsStatus.

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