topic Re: Pop Up error message display in SAS Programming

Pop Up error message display

SASPhile — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:45:50 GMT

Hi All,
I'm uing SAS 9.1 and would like to know if a error message can be displayed as popup.Not all users know how to read log messages.If we can show an error message on the screen it will be useful.
SASPhile.

Re: Pop Up error message display

DanielSantos — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:11:11 GMT

Not easy to do, at least from what I'm aware.

One thing that I remember, and that might do the trick, is to pre-process your script with some code that will capture the log, and the post-process with some other that will parse the log and pop a message through the %window macro.

Of course, you should make sure that the erroarabend options is not in order.

Here's some papers about the %window macro:
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi27/p192-27.pdf
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi25/25/cc/25p076.pdf
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi24/Coders/p091-24.pdf

Cheers from Portugal

Daniel Santos @ www.cgd.pt

Re: Pop Up error message display

Peter_C — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:20 GMT

another popup, built in to the old sas interface is the dm command [pre] postMessage 'your message'[/pre]
With suitable programming of the windows api you can provide a message pop-up with action buttons.

good luck
PeterC