%WINDOW Macro Statement in SAS EG(Version 7.13)

[sumitpratap]

Dear all,

When I use %WINDOW Macro Statement in SAS EG, following error message has been noticed:

ERROR: The MACRO windowing environment cannot be initialized due to a XU supervisor failure.

While doing some research, I came to know that %WINDOW Macro Statement doesn't work in SAS EG. I have 2 questions:

1) Is there any official page where It is written that SAS EG doesn't support %WINDOW Macro Statement

2) Is there any alternate way to achieve the same result

[Tom]

The %WINDOW and WINDOW statements are features of SAS Display Manager.  If you are using Enterprise Guide then you are not using Display Manager.

Enterprise Guide has Prompts instead to collecting user input.

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:  This Tech Support note explains that Display Mansger commands are not available in EG: http://support.sas.com/kb/11/056.html .

  However, EG has the Prompt Manager and prompting interface that allows a developer the ability to prompt the user for input without using %WINDOW. The value that the user selects is assigned to a macro variable. This paper has an example: http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/036-2010.pdf (although it features an older version of EG, the basic functionality is still the same) and this paper too: https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings13/120-2013.pdf (although the Prompt Manager is not the main focus of this Macro Basics paper).

Hope this helps,

Cynthia

[sumitpratap]

Thanks for quick reply.