Name

dce_msg_get_cat_msg − Opens message catalog and retrieves message

Synopsis

#include <dce/dce_msg.h> unsigned char ∗dce_msg_get_cat_msg(
unsigned32 message,
error_status_t ∗status);

Parameters

Input

messageID of message to be retrieved. 

Output

statusReturns the status code from this operation. The status code is a value that indicates whether the routine completed successfully and if not, why not. 

Description

The dce_msg_get_cat_msg() routine is a convenience form of the dce_msg_cat_get_msg() routine. The difference between it and the latter routine is that dce_msg_get_cat_msg() does not require the message catalog to be explicitly opened; it determines the correct catalog from the message parameter (which is a 32-bit DCE message ID as described in dce_error_inq_text(3dce)), opens it, and returns a pointer to the message. If the message catalog is inaccessible, the routine returns an error. (See the routine dce_msg_get() for a description of the return value.)  The space allocated for the message should not be freed.  The output pointer is useable until a call to another dce_msg... routine or a call to the dce_error_inq_text() routine. 

The routine will fail if the message catalog is not correctly installed. 

Errors

The following describes a partial list of errors that might be returned.  Refer to the OSF DCE Problem Determination Guide for complete descriptions of all error messages. 

See dce_msg_get(3dce). 

Related Information

Functions: dce_msg_cat_close(3dce), dce_msg_cat_get_msg(3dce), dce_msg_cat_open(3dce), dce_msg_get(3dce), dce_msg_get_msg(3dce).