Programmer Guide/Macro Library/CONLOG

CONLOG [line1 [line2 ..]] [ options ]

Write the specified text-lines (line1, ...) to the Console window and/or the Log-window. This function can be used by scripts to write error- and progress-information to the Console. It

argument	description	default
line1, line2, ...	The text lines to be written to the window(s).
option	description	default
/Shell	Write the prefix "appid:currtime - " before each text line. Where appid is the value of variable AppName and currtime is the current time (hh.mm.ss).	-	/Shell	Write the prefix "appid:currtime - " before each text line. Where appid is the value of variable AppName and currtime is the current time (hh.mm.ss).	UM or EM
rc	The return code of the EM function. This must be an integer number.	-1
/X /X=n	Exit from n macro levels. If /X (eXit) is supplied without a number, the number of levels n is set to 2 (return to caller). (see command EXIT for details)
RESULT	description
undefined	for the function UM
rc	for the function EM (value is returned to the macro defined b< level)

Example:

[macro umemtest]
um press OK key to continue; UM - waiting for user input
em 107; press OK to exit this macro with return code 107; EM - waiting for user input
// this point should nevel be reached!
conlog '$#mac: you should never see this message - something goes wrong!'
exit 1 int 0