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  From the February 2012 Issue of Prestwood eMag
 
Delphi Language Details:
Using MessageBox
 
Posted 22 years ago on 8/21/2002
Take Away: MessageBox is similar to ShowMessage but gives you more control over how it displays. This one is a favorite of developers because it is a Windows API function wrapped in a Delphi method. This is important because many Windows development languages support the MessageBox function.

KB100006

To do:

  1. Add a button to our form (this time change its Caption to MessageBox1).
  2. Double click on the button to bring up the editor.
  3. Type line 3 from the code listing between the begin and end.
  4. Run and test the program.

Notes:

  1. The begin and end mark this method’s code. Notice that the end has a “;” after it.
  2. There is a main begin and end that mark the application’s code. Notice the final end has a “.” after it. (You can see this by switching back to Delphi.)
1. procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
2. begin
3.   Application.MessageBox('Hello World!', 'My First App', 0);
4. end; 

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Comment 1 of 2
MessageBox also allows you to display multiple buttons and know which the user pressed. This is very usefull for limited yes/no type user interaction.

To do:

  1. Add a button to our form (set its Caption to MessageBox2).
  2. Double click on the button to bring up the editor.
  3. Type lines 2 and 3 from the code listing above begin.
  4. Type Lines 5 and 6 between the begin and end.
  5. Run and test the program.

Notes:

  1. Notice we declared sAns to be an integer. Then assigned the return value from MessageBox to it.
  2. Because Pascal is a highly typed language, we must use methods like IntToStr to convert a value to the correct type for the given method (as in line 6).
1. procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
2. var
3.   iAns : Integer;
4. begin
5.   iAns := Application.MessageBox('Is this fun?', 'Question', MB_YESNO);
6.   ShowMessage(IntToStr(iAns));
7. end; 
Posted 22 years ago

Comment 2 of 2
the syntax is nice but u can always go direct:

MessageBox(handle, 'Check this out!, 'Box Head', MB_ICONWARNING)

That's it.

Cheers!

Posted 18 years ago
 
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