Dialog - Message Box

Displays a custom text message in a standard Windows message box.

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Action List Syntax:

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Dialog
<<VARIABLE>> = Dialog.MessageBox (<<TITLE>>, <<MESSAGE>>, <<DIALOGTYPE>>, <<ICON>>)

Settings

Title:

The title bar text for the message box.

Message:

The text that you want to display in the message box.

Dialog Type

The dialog type refers to which buttons will be available to the end user. For example, selecting Yes|No|Cancel as the Dialog Type will create a dialog with three buttons: "Yes", "No", and "Cancel".

The available Dialog Types are:

Ok
Yes|No
Ok|Cancel
Retry|Cancel
Yes|No|Cancel
Abort|Retry|Ignore

Icon

The icon (if any) that you want to include on the message box. Choose from:

None
Exclamation
Information
Question
Stop

Default Button

This section allows you to choose which button, on the dialog, will be selected by default. The radio buttons refer to the buttons on the dialog from left to right.

For example, on a "Yes|No|Cancel" dialog, "Yes" is button One, "No" is button Two, and "Cancel" is button Three.

Variable

Store result in variable:

The variable that will store the result of the dialog. This will be the name of the button that the user selected in all capitals (e.g. Ok = OK).

Return Values

Value (%LastErrorNum%)	Simple Message (%LastErrorMsg%)	Verbose Message (%LastErrorDetails%)
0 (OK)
1	MSG_ERR_MESSAGE_BOX	MSG_ERR_MESSAGE_BOX System Error <<MESSAGE>>

Examples

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