Msgbox

[GEOSoft]

Here is another one you can add to the Help file if you want. I stumbled upon it by accident.

MsgBox (5000,'','') I don't know what the key pressed number would be for "Help" though.

[CyberSlug]

5000 doesn't do anything for me--I don't get any message box....

However, you encouraged me to look online--and I've found some I"ll add to the unofficial docs:

256 makes Second button is default

512 makes Third button is default

So try these AbortRetryIgnore, for example, dialogs:

MsgBox (2,'','') ;first button default

MsgBox (258,'','') ;second button default

MsgBox (514,'','') ;third button default

Any others?

[GEOSoft]

I don't know what you did wrong then because this gives me a message box with Cancel/Help buttons with Cancel being default.

MsgBox (5000,'','')
Exit

That's using 3.0.91 Beta (unstable).

[Valik]

GEOsoft, it's an OS thing I believe. I don't get anything on XP.

CyberSlug, enjoy, this is straight from the MessageBox section in one of the Windows header files...

/*

* MessageBox() Flags

*/

#define MB_OK 0x00000000L

#define MB_OKCANCEL 0x00000001L

#define MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE 0x00000002L

#define MB_YESNOCANCEL 0x00000003L

#define MB_YESNO 0x00000004L

#define MB_RETRYCANCEL 0x00000005L

#if(WINVER >= 0x0500)

#define MB_CANCELTRYCONTINUE 0x00000006L

#endif /* WINVER >= 0x0500 */

#define MB_ICONHAND 0x00000010L

#define MB_ICONQUESTION 0x00000020L

#define MB_ICONEXCLAMATION 0x00000030L

#define MB_ICONASTERISK 0x00000040L

#if(WINVER >= 0x0400)

#define MB_USERICON 0x00000080L

#define MB_ICONWARNING MB_ICONEXCLAMATION

#define MB_IConerror MB_ICONHAND

#endif /* WINVER >= 0x0400 */

#define MB_ICONINFORMATION MB_ICONASTERISK

#define MB_IConstop MB_ICONHAND

#define MB_DEFBUTTON1 0x00000000L

#define MB_DEFBUTTON2 0x00000100L

#define MB_DEFBUTTON3 0x00000200L

#if(WINVER >= 0x0400)

#define MB_DEFBUTTON4 0x00000300L

#endif /* WINVER >= 0x0400 */

#define MB_APPLMODAL 0x00000000L

#define MB_SYSTEMMODAL 0x00001000L

#define MB_TASKMODAL 0x00002000L

#if(WINVER >= 0x0400)

#define MB_HELP 0x00004000L // Help Button

#endif /* WINVER >= 0x0400 */

#define MB_NOFOCUS 0x00008000L

#define MB_SETFOREGROUND 0x00010000L

#define MB_DEFAULT_DESKTOP_ONLY 0x00020000L

#if(WINVER >= 0x0400)

#define MB_TOPMOST 0x00040000L

#define MB_RIGHT 0x00080000L

#define MB_RTLREADING 0x00100000L

#endif /* WINVER >= 0x0400 */

#ifdef _WIN32_WINNT

#if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0400)

#define MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION 0x00200000L

#else

#define MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION 0x00040000L

#endif

#define MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION_NT3X 0x00040000L

#endif

#define MB_TYPEMASK 0x0000000FL

#define MB_ICONMASK 0x000000F0L

#define MB_DEFMASK 0x00000F00L

#define MB_MODEMASK 0x00003000L

#define MB_MISCMASK 0x0000C000L

[CyberSlug]

Hmm, 0x5000 which is hexadecmial gives me the help button! So does 0x4000 which equals 16384 decimal

Here are some more (from MS Visual Studio 6.0 help file):

16384 Adds Help button to the message box

65536 Specifies the message box window as the foreground window

524288 Text is right aligned

1048576 Specifies text should appear as right-to-left reading on Hebrew and Arabic systems

Edit: Thanks Valik.

Edited January 24, 2004 by CyberSlug

[CyberSlug]

Oops, forgot to mention this one:

6 Cancel, Try Again, Continue

I only have XP available at the moment.... Does this work on other Windows versions?

EDIT: Found info at microsoft's library

Edited January 24, 2004 by CyberSlug

[GEOSoft]

MsgBox (5258,'','')
Exit

Gave me OK/Cancel/Help with OK having focus which was the same for 5514

MsgBox (5256,'','')
Exit

Gave me the same as 5000

Okay I just figured it out, Cancel/Help is 8

OK/Cancel/Help is 10

Now here is a tricky (and useless) one. Help/OK/Cancel/Help is 12.

This could take forever to test. Does anyone have a method to figure out the button click number for "Help". That could be great for launching a help file.

[CyberSlug]

GeoSoft, what version of Windows are you running?

Like Larry said, the Help button does not close the MsgBox at least on Windows XP (and 2000?) so a return value is not obtained.

EDIT: I agree with what Valik says below.

For what it's worth, the values of 256 and 512 actually were missing from the help file; however, they were documented in the Contants.au3 file bundled with AutoIt 3.0.91!

Edited January 24, 2004 by CyberSlug

[Valik]

Most of the combinations you're going to come up with are useless. All the useful ones already have pre-defined constants listed in my post above. As far as actually making the Help button work, it requires some internal stuff to be done as Larry stated.

Also, I wouldn't recommend relying on AutoIt being an exact mirror interface into the Windows API functions it's using. For convienence or ease of use, some things could of been changed.

[GEOSoft]

GeoSoft, what version of Windows are you running?

That was on 98SE. I can try them, when I have time, on the XP partition. If they are not usable there is no sense in having them listed. It just caught me by surprise when I saw it there.

[Valik]

CyberSlug, if you document some of the other message box flags, remember to specify the minimum OS it works on. I think the reason Jon didn't list them all to begin with is because not all of them work on earlier versions of Windows.

[jlandes]

If you look at the Constants.au3 include file in the AutoIt Include folder, you'll see all the supported MsgBox styles listed. Here they are for reference:

;==============================================
; Message Box Constants
;==============================================
; Indicates the buttons displayed in the message box
$MB_OK                =    0; One push button: OK
$MB_OKCANCEL          =    1; Two push buttons: OK and Cancel
$MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE  =    2; Three push buttons: Abort, Retry, and Ignore
$MB_YESNOCANCEL       =    3; Three push buttons: Yes, No, and Cancel
$MB_YESNO             =    4; Two push buttons: Yes and No
$MB_RETRYCANCEL       =    5; Two push buttons: Retry and Cancel

; Displays an icon in the message box
$MB_ICONHAND          =   16; Stop-sign icon
$MB_ICONQUESTION      =   32; Question-mark icon
$MB_ICONEXCLAMATION   =   48; Exclamation-point icon
$MB_ICONASTERISK      =   64; Icon consisting of an 'i' in a circle

; Indicates the default button
$MB_DEFBUTTON1        =    0; The first button is the default button
$MB_DEFBUTTON2        =  256; The second button is the default button
$MB_DEFBUTTON3        =  512; The third button is the default button

; Indicates the modality of the dialog box
$MB_APPLMODAL         =    0; Application modal
$MB_SYSTEMMODAL       = 4096; System modal
$MB_TASKMODAL         = 8192; Task modal

; Indicates the button selected in the message box
$IDOK                 =    1; OK button was selected
$IDCANCEL             =    2; Cancel button was selected
$IDABORT              =    3; Abort button was selected
$IDRETRY              =    4; Retry button was selected
$IDIGNORE             =    5; Ignore button was selected
$IDYES                =    6; Yes button was selected
$IDNO                 =    7; No button was selected

[CyberSlug]

I think the following also work on all versions of Windows:

262144 (0x40000) MB_TOPMOST -- sets the Top-Most attribute

524288 (0x80000) MB_RIGHT -- makes title and text right-justified

[jlandes]

I didn't see them listed in the MSDN docs for the MsgBox function.

[Valik]

I didn't see them listed in the MSDN docs for the MsgBox function.

MSDN doesn't list all the flags. If you notice, there are a some in the header file which MSDN doesn't mention.

[CyberSlug]

Try this link

It mentions

MB_RIGHT

    The text is right-justified.

MB_RTLREADING

    Displays message and caption text using right-to-left reading order on Hebrew and Arabic systems.

MB_SETFOREGROUND

    The message box becomes the foreground window. Internally, the system calls the SetForegroundWindow function for the message box.

MB_TOPMOST

    The message box is created with the WS_EX_TOPMOST window style.