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Six Levels of Treatment
By default, the error manager recognizes six different levels of error severity. The default actions for these levels range from no action for benign errors to halting the program for fatal errors. The error manager also supports the intermediate actions of simply notifying the user, or of notifying the user and letting the user decide whether to continue or abort.
Customizable Treatments
These various levels of treatment are implemented with virtual methods so they are easy to customize. The error manager calls a different virtual method for each severity level, so you can override the default error actions with your own application specific error actions. See the various Take methods for examples.
The recognized severity EQUATEs are declared in EQUATES.CLW. These severity levels and their default actions are:
| Level:Benign (0) | no action, returns Level:Benign |
| Level:User (1) | displays message, returns Level:Benign or Level:Cancel |
| Level:Notify (5) | displays message, returns Level:Benign |
| Level:Fatal (3) | displays message, halts the program |
| Level:Program (2) | treated as Level:Fatal |
| Level:Cancel (4) | used to confirm no action taken by User |
| any other value | treated as Level:Program |
You may define your own additional severity levels and their associated actions.