Pro/TOOLKIT Message Window

This ProEngineer Toolkit tutorial takes an in-depth look at Message Windows and how to receive User Input.

In this ProEngineer Toolkit training guide, you will learn that the message window in the Pro/ENGINEER user interface can be used to display text and status messages as well as accept user input. Message files are the mechanism used by ProEngineer Toolkit to display messages to the message window and that there are different types of messages at our disposal.

Messages are composed of four different lines of text that have a role in the message definition. The functions ProMessageDisplay() and ProMessageClear() are used to display and scroll the message window. To accept user input the programmer will have to use the ProEngineer Toolkit function that corresponds to the data type that will be entered into the message window.

Displaying a popup message dialog box can be accomplished with the function ProUIMessageDialogDisplay() and acts much the same way as the Windows API call MessageBox().

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