msgbox limitations

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

when i use this text in a messagebox

"/hs will run program in hidden mode and shutdown the computer when finished" it's displayed in Windows XP correctly but in vista it's not, in vista the line is seperated into two lines ""/hs will run program in hidden mode and shutdown the computer" and the next line "when finished"

The code i use

Func _CMD_Help ()
  MsgBox(0, "Commandline", "Program <parameter>" & @LF & _
     @LF & _
    "/h Program will be run in hidden mode" & @LF & _
    "/hs will run program in hidden mode and shutdown the computer when finished" & @LF & _
    "/debug program will run in debug mode" & @LF & _
    "/reset program will be reset to default settings")
   Exit
EndFunc

are there limitations to the lenght or is this a bug, according to the help

message box appears centered on screen and resizes according to the text it contains. However, the title could get truncated if the SYSTEMMODAL flag (4096) is used..

Thnx

Emiel

Edited December 21, 2007 by Emiel Wieldraaijer

[martin]

when i use this text in a messagebox

"/hs will run program in hidden mode and shutdown the computer when finished" it's displayed in Windows XP correctly but in vista it's not, in vista the line is seperated into two lines ""/hs will run program in hidden mode and shutdown the computer" and the next line "when finished"

The code i use

Func _CMD_Help ()
  MsgBox(0, "Commandline", "Program <parameter>" & @LF & _
     @LF & _
    "/h Program will be run in hidden mode" & @LF & _
    "/hs will run program in hidden mode and shutdown the computer when finished" & @LF & _
    "/debug program will run in debug mode" & @LF & _
    "/reset program will be reset to default settings")
   Exit
EndFunc

are there limitations to the lenght or is this a bug, according to the help

Thnx

Emiel

As you say, it works ok on XP.

I haven't tried it on Vista but it sounds as though you need to use @LFCR or @CR instead of @LF. Try experimenting.

Edited December 21, 2007 by martin

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

Hi Martin,

Changing it to @CRLF and @CR has no postive effect

Message box displayed correct in Windows XP and in Vista not

i think it must be a bug

Emiel

[Jos]

Hi Martin,

Changing it to @CRLF and @CR has no postive effect

Message box displayed correct in Windows XP and in Vista not

i think it must be a bug

Emiel

Autoit3 is using standard windows calls.

Try this version to see if it still goes wrong :

_CMD_Help()
Func _CMD_Help()
    _MsgBox(0, "Commandline", "Program <parameter>" & @LF & _
            @LF & _
            "/h Program will be run in hidden mode" & @LF & _
            "/hs will run program in hidden mode and shutdown the computer when finished" & @LF & _
            "/debug program will run in debug mode" & @LF & _
            "/reset program will be reset to default settings")
    Exit
EndFunc ;==>_CMD_Help

Func _MsgBox($type,$title,$text)
    DllCall("user32.dll","int","MessageBoxA","Hwnd",0,"str",$text,"str",$title,"int",$Type)
EndFunc

Edited December 22, 2007 by Jos

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

Hi Jos,

no the problem still exists ..

i've added two images to show you the difference between XP and Vista

Emiel

Edited December 22, 2007 by Emiel Wieldraaijer

[Jos]

Hi Jos,

no the problem still exists ..

i've added an image to show you the result

Emiel

It just proves its either something with your setup or with Vista itself and doesn't have anything to do with AutoIt3.

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

I'll check a real vista computer, because this one is done in a virtual machine..

i'll report back

Emiel

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

I've tested it on 4 vista machines

- Vista Home Premium Dutch

- Vista Business Dutch

- Vista Business English

- Vista Ultimate English

and all the same problem ..

so i believe

message box appears centered on screen and resizes according to the text it contains. However, the title could get truncated if the SYSTEMMODAL flag (4096) is used..

isn't correct for Vista operating systems or it's a bug

Emiel

Edited December 22, 2007 by Emiel Wieldraaijer

[Richard Robertson]

It could be a Vista bug. It wouldn't be the first. If you can, report it to Microsoft.

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

I would be nice if someone else could reproduce this error with another programming language (i only know autoit a bit)

[Jos]

The only issue you see is that it is autowrapped in Vista where XP doesnt do that with your example ..right ?

In WinXP it will also autowrap when the text gets long enough:

msgbox(0,"test","this is a very long line and that is also autowrapped by the standard MessageboxA in windows xp for me.'this is a very long line and that is also autowrapped by the standard MessageboxA in windows xp for me. this is a very long line and that is also autowrapped by the standard MessageboxA in windows xp for me.")

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

Hi Jos,

yes you are correct...

when the lines becomes large enough the problem also exists in Windows XP

So it isn't a bug

thnx

Emiel

[Jos]

If you want to force it to display as you want it the only solution is to create your own MsgBox func and have that create a GUI that looks as you want it.

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

yeah to bad..

[GEOSoft]

yeah to bad..

You could also write the MsgBox() so it looks right in Vista. Then it should look about the same in XP. I think this is probably a change in the way MS has designed the dialog in Vista. They have so much happening in Vista that they may have decided to make the maximum width for dialogs smaller.