MsgBox - Location

[HeinrichA]

Hallo there,

I couldn't find a way to set an initial location / position of a message box. Can anybody help on that ?

Thanks in advance !

[Melba23]

HeinrichA,

Welcome to the AutoIt forums.

If you search the forum there are a few ways you can do this. But it is much easier to use my ExtMsgBox UDF which gives you a lot of options, including position - the link is in my sig below.

M23

[water]

The MsgBox function provided by AutoIt does not provide this feature.
But please have a look at the ExtMsgBox written by Melba.

Edited May 27, 2015 by water

[HeinrichA]

Thanks for answering.

Im wondering, why it was so complicated to program it with a position from the very beginning ?

[Melba23]

HeinrichA,

The AutoIt MsgBox function just calls the Windows API to produce a standard Windows dialog, which is always centred on the screen, so there is no way to pass location parameters.

M23

[water]

According to the help file "AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language ...".
The Visual Basic MsgBox function as well centers the dialog and has no location parameters.

So: Works as designed.

[HeinrichA]

  On 5/27/2015 at 2:35 PM, Melba23 said:

The AutoIt MsgBox function just calls the Windows API to produce a standard Windows dialog, which is always centred on the screen, so there is no way to pass location parameters.

But it shouldn't be difficult to attach another API call, should it ? For example, calling the SetWindowPos function

  On 5/27/2015 at 2:40 PM, water said:

According to the help file "AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language ...".
The Visual Basic MsgBox function as well centers the dialog and has no location parameters.

So: Works as designed.

​Well, that's an argument for another day, but BASIC-like, doesn't mean BASIC-same.

​

[water]

Correct.

[Melba23]

HeinrichA,

If you feel it is such a lacuna in the language, why not make a feature request in Trac?

M23

[reb]

this has worked well for me.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/22531-move-msgbox-autoit3executescript/?p=185158   ; SmOke_N

 

[Gianni]

  On 5/28/2015 at 2:09 PM, reb said:

this has worked well for me.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/22531-move-msgbox-autoit3executescript/?p=185158   ; SmOke_N

 

here ​two other ways a little simpler:

way1 by Jos

way2 by JScript

[reb]

Thanks Chimp. I'm always up for different ways to do things.

REB