[jawsscripts] Re: JawsMessage Box: HowTo force new/blank lines in message?

It looks like this, my brother:
Script test ()

var
string s_message
let s_message = "first, go to control panel.\n 2nd, choose add remove
programs\n"
+"3rd, choose the program u wish 2 remove"
messagebox(s_message)

EndScript

On 10/27/07, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's Great!
> ----- OThank you martin.
> Sorry I haven't gotten back to email until now, so am a little late in
> thanking/replying to this one.
>
> I'd forgotten about that concatination thing, but did recall it after I'd
> sent my message, but sure didn't know about \n, so that's very useful code
> example.
>
> thank you.
>
> geoff c.
>
>
> From: "Martin Slack" <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:38 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: JawsMessage Box: HowTo force new/blank lines in
> message?
>
>
> > Geoff,
> >
> >  It is \n within a string that forces a new line.  To keep message
> > segments
> > short, just concatenate them.  Combining both approaches, we have:
> >
> > ---code segment---
> > Var string msg
> >
> > Let msg = "first line\n"
> > Let msg = msg + "second line\n"
> > Let msg = msg + "third line"
> >
> > MessageBox (msg)
> > ---code ends---
> >
> >  hth
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:32 AM
> > Subject: [jawsscripts] JawsMessage Box: HowTo force new/blank lines in
> > message?
> >
> >
> >> guys, could any of you indicate to me how one forces newLineCharacters
> >> and/or blank lines in a message contained in the Jaws MessageBox
> >> function,
> >> to improve Formatting and readability of the end resultant onScreen
> >> message?
> >> And, also how one goes about making it more readable/editable itself
> >> whilst constructing it, within the script manager, such that it doesn't
> >> just scroll off the screen as one is composing?
> >> Thanks so much.
> >>
> >> geoff c.
> >
> > ---snip---
> >
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