When debugging – and when developing quick and dirty utilities – I often resort to the DSPLY opcode. It isn’t pretty, but it puts information onto the screen without having to bother with DDS. There is a better way.
Display Long Text (QUILNGTX) API displays a pop-up window containing the string of text passed to it. You can even add a title to the window by passing a Message ID and (optionally) a qualified message file name.
This API has been around for a while, but it’s new to me and, after playing around with it a bit, I have now updated the DSPOSRLS utility to take advantage of it.
Pretty, isn’t it?
For the sake of completeness, I should probably add a message to a message file for this so that I can display a window title. For the sake of laziness, that’s something for the future.
Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill 