[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] How to escape from an update message?

[Dominique]

I have following message in Progress-4GL:

DEF VAR L-temp AS CHARACTER.
MESSAGE "Give me information" UPDATE L-temp.

This shows an update message, which is fine, but when I try to escape from that message (e.g. I realise that I have clicked on the wrong button, launching this message), I can't hide that message:



How can I solve this (I simply want to remove the message from screen)?I can't add VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX as alert-boxes only can update logical variables and fields. Or is there a simple Show-Dialogbox() for such a case?

Edit
I tried replacing UPDATE by SET and viewing the whole thing as an alert-box, but this seems not to be allowed up (only logical variables and fields seem to be allowed).

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