MessageBox( )

Microsoft Visual FoxPro Foxtools

MessageBox( )

Displays a modal dialog box centered in the screen.

Syntax

MessageBox(cText, cTitle, nType)

cText

Specifies the contents in dialog box.

ctitle

Specifies the title of dialog box window.

ntype

Specifies the type of dialog box as follows:

nType Type
0 MB_OK
1 MB_OKCANCEL
2 MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE
3 MB_YESNOCANCEL
4 MB_YESNO
5 MB_RETRYCANCEL
16 MB_ICONSTOP
32 MB_ICONQUESTION
48 MB_ICONEXCLAMATION
64 MB_ICONINFORMATION

Return Type

Numeric

Remarks

MessageBox( ) returns a value indicating the button that the user clicked.

Return value ID of button clicked
1 idok
2 idcancel
3 idabort
4 idretry
5 idignore
6 idyes
7 idno