Purpose

Issue Standard Error, Message Box, and Normal Messages.

Operation

This package provides three functions for issuing messages.

• tlaError - issue error message and set return code to -1.

• tlaMessageBox - issue message box with default parameters.

• tlaNormal - issue normal message and set return code to 0. line and report number of columns skipped.

Example

Command Line - include date/time in a message ...

tlaError( "Name", "Error encountered - abterm" )
tlaMessageBox( "Name", "Point D reached" )
tlaNormal( "Name", "Normal completion" )

Input Parameters

Return Codes

Reference

None.

Compatibility

Current version verified under:

• Visual SlickEdit 8.0

Installation

Perform the following steps:

• Select the Code button on this page.
• When the second window opens, select all the text in the text box.
• Issue Ctl-C (copy).
• Create a file in Visual SlickEdit with type Slick-C and extension ".e".
• Issue Ctl-V (paste).
• Issue Ctl-S (save).
• Select PFK-12 to compile the macros.

Purchase

tlaSlick is a Visual Slick-C module that contains all of the Slick-C macros on this website in a single easy to install package. The tlaSlick module can be purchased by selecting the Buy button on this page.

tlaMessage is included as a function in tlaSlick.