MsgBox

Description

Creates, displays, and operates a message box. The message box contains a message and title, along with any combination of predefined icons and push buttons. An optional Timeout period can be specified: after the specified period, if no reply from user, a specific timeout message will be returned allowing script to make default/automatic decisions.

Syntax

Result = MSGBOX(hParent, Message [, Style [, Title [, Timeout [, UpdateCountDown, [, CountDownFormat ] ]] ] ] )

Returns

Number

Parameters

Name	Type	Optional	Meaning
hParent	Number	No	Handle to the owner window of the message box to be created. If this parameter is zero, the message box has no owner window.
Message	String	No	A string expression that contains the message to be displayed.
Style	Number	Yes	Specifies the contents and behavior of the dialog box. This parameter can be a combination of flags from the groups of flags specified into module equates.
Title	String	Yes	A string expression that contains the dialog box title. If this parameter is an empty string, the default title "thinBasic" will be used.
Timeout	Number	Yes	Number of milliseconds after which the message box will automatically exit with a %IDTIMEOUT return code.
UpdateCountDown	Number	Yes	Number of milliseconds time window for window caption count down update. If not present, no count down will be shown
CountDownFormat	String	Yes	Format of the count down. If not present a standard one will be used

Remarks

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