BBjConstants

Description

In BBj 11.0 and higher, the BBjConstants object exposes constants related to miscellaneous BBj features.

Creation

BBjAPI > BBjConstants

The BBjRuntime may be obtained through the following BBjAPI object method:

Return Value	Method
BBjConstants	getConstants()

Methods of BBjConstants

None.

Remarks

None.

Constants

MSGBOX Buttons:
0	MB_OK
1	MB_OKCANCEL
2	MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE
3	MB_YESNOCANCEL
4	MB_YESNO
5	MB_RETRYCANCEL
7	MB_CUSTOM
MSGBOX Icon:
16	MB_ICONSTOP
32	MB_ICONQUESTION
48	MB_ICONEXCLAMATION
64	MB_ICONINFORMATION
MSGBOX Default Button:
0	MB_DEFBUTTON1
256	MB_DEFBUTTON2
512	MB_DEFBUTTON3
65536	MB_DEFBUTTONNONE
MSGBOX Options:
32768	MB_RAWTEXT
MSGBOX Selection Constants
0	MB_SELECT_CLOSE
1	MB_SELECT_OK
2	MB_SELECT_CANCEL
3	MB_SELECT_ABORT
4	MB_SELECT_RETRY
5	MB_SELECT_IGNORE
6	MB_SELECT_YES
7	MB_SELECT_NO

Example

rem ' BBjConstants

c! = bbjapi().getConstants()

result = msgbox("OK to proceed?",c!.MB_YESNO+c!.MB_ICONQUESTION+c!.MB_DEFBUTTON2)
switch result
    case c!.MB_SELECT_YES
        print "User selected YES"
        break
    case c!.MB_SELECT_NO
        print "User selected NO"
        break
    case c!.MB_SELECT_CLOSE
        print "User hit ESCAPE or clicked the close box"
        break
    case default
        print "Unknown response",result
        break
swend
stop

See Also

BBj Object Variables

BBj Object Assignment

BBj Object Error Handling

BBj Object Operators

MSGBOX() Function

See the BBj Object Diagram for an illustration of the relationship between BBj Objects.