Dialogue Boxes

Some hints for developers working within the Sysgem Enterprise Manager (SEM) environment.

Dialogue Boxes

How to display a dialogue box from a SEM script:

e.g. in a Windows Script (in Perl)

   print "\@{{B Banner - Title\n";
   print "\@{{T 1st Line of information for display inside the box\n";
   print "\@{{T \n";
   print "\@{{T Last line of information\n";
   print "\@{{DI\n";

The "\@{{DI\n" will display the dialogue box as an informational Box.

To display an error box, use the following instead of the last line in the example above:

   print "\@{{DE\n";

To display an warning box, use:

   print "\@{{DW\n";

To display an enquiry box (requesting that the user repliies with a "Yes" or "No"), use:

   print "\@{{DQ\n";

Special use of the "Enquiry" box

Note that an enquiry box is only really effective if executed from the "(M) Post Processing" script in a Menu option, and then only if there is some other action pending after the post processing script has run. The entire post processing script is run to completion without the script being aware of the reply to the enquiry. If the reply is "No", then any remaining scripts to be run - such as 'Integration Class' scripts will NOT be run, whereas if the reply is "Yes" then all remaining scripts will be actioned. An example for the use of the enquiry box would be a question of whether a user account that has just been created should also be added to the subscriber database (via an 'Integration Class' script). If the answer given is "No" then the Integration Class script to add the subscriber pointer will NOT be run.

Other Platforms

On UNIX/Linux:

   echo "@{{B Banner - Title"
   echo "@{{T 1st Line of information for display inside the box"
   echo "@{{T "
   echo "@{{T Last line of information"
   echo "@{{DI"

On OpenVMS:

   $ write sys$output "@{{B Banner - Title"
   $ write sys$output "@{{T 1st Line of information for display inside the box"
   $ write sys$output "@{{T "
   $ write sys$output "@{{T Last line of information"
   $ write sys$output "@{{DI"