Displays a message at compile time in the Compiler Messages dialog box.

Note: Does not apply to SpeedScript programming.

Syntax

&MESSAGE text-string
text-string
A string of characters, preprocessor name references, named include file arguments, or any combination of these that results in a character string to display. The text-string argument does not need to be quoted.

Example

This is a possible compile-time message directive:

&MESSAGE Compiling the {&FILE-NAME} file.
. . .

If this fragment appears in a procedure file, cmessage.p, compiling this file with the COMPILE statement causes the following message to be included with the compiler messages:

Compiling the cmessage.p file.

Notes

  • The compiler removes /* Multi-line comments */ on lines of ABL code with preprocessor directives. To retain comments, use // Single-line comments or escape the multi-line comment using a tilde (~). For example, &SCOPED-DEFINE VAR3 DEF VAR xpos AS INT. /~* column position of fill-in *~/.

See also

{ } Preprocessor name reference