Changing the Menu Message

Designer: The message displayed when a menu field is highlighted is normally specified in the "Menu Field Basic Information" dialog box. You can change this message in your code, at any point after you have read the form from the Designer library.

Code: The message displayed in the message window when a menu field is highlighted is normally specified in the mnf_def() call when the menu field is defined. To change the message or add a message, call the set field message function, sf_msg():

void sf_msg(msg_stp, mfldp)

UCHAR *msg_stp;

/* Message to appear when field is active

*/

MFIELDPTR mfldp;

/* Pointer to menu field

*/

After this call is made, the specified message appears in the message window when the menu field is active.

If you do not want to display the menu message for a field, specify NULLP as the message string. If NULLP is specified as the menu message, the menu message window is removed from the screen while this menu field is active.