Msgbox windows

Privacy policy. Displays a modal dialog box that contains a system icon, a set of buttons, and a brief application-specific message, such as status or error information.

The message box returns an integer value that indicates which button the user clicked. A handle to the owner window of the message box to be created. If this parameter is NULL , the message box has no owner window. The message to be displayed. The contents and behavior of the dialog box. This parameter can be a combination of flags from the following groups of flags. Depending on the hierarchy of windows in the application, the user may be able to move to other windows within the thread. All child windows of the parent of the message box are automatically disabled, but pop-up windows are not.

If the current input desktop is not the default desktop, MessageBox does not return until the user switches to the default desktop. Terminal Services: If the calling thread has an impersonation token, the function directs the message box to the session specified in the impersonation token.

This is so that the message box can appear on a desktop other than the desktop corresponding to the hWnd.

For information on security considerations in regard to using this flag, see Interactive Services. If there is a text string following the option, set the custom text for the sixth button.

Background color, as a hex number where Blue is the most significant 2 bytes, Green the middle two, and Red the least significant. Disable the message box buttons for n seconds at startup.

Text color, as a hex number where Blue is the most significant 2 bytes, Green the middle two, and Red the least significant. Display an icon consisting of a lower case "i" in a circle in the message box. The message box window will be displayed on top of all other windows. The message box is created as a topmost window. The initial x,y screen coordinates.

Display a question mark icon in the message box. The buttons will be right-justified. Avast Free Security. WhatsApp Messenger. Talking Tom Cat. Clash of Clans.

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Baby Shark reaches 10 billion YouTube views. Microsoft is done with Xbox One. Windows Windows. It's available in all modern versions of Windows at least as far back as XP. To display a message to the currently logged on user, run the following:. The result looks like this:. You can learn more about Msg on TechNet.

It works on all modern versions and editions of Windows in their default configuration, and is easy to use. I needed something similar to this today. The message boxes it produces are modal to the current console window. That is, the user can't do anything until they close the dialog. Also, the return code from the MessageBox call is returned to the caller so that a script can react to whichever button was pressed.

Adding an 80KB executable to the mix might not be everyone's cup of tea. And there is a minor issue of not being able to easily pass in newlines from the command-line to display multiline messages. On a minor upside, it displays the dialog in less wall clock time than any of the other solutions presented so far. Which displays a popup balloon in the status notification area of the screen using IUserNotification. The downside is that the Notifu executable runs just shy of KB.

Another unfortunate example that COM creates unnecessary bloat and leaves me wishing that there was a simple, lightweight API for the feature. For something cross-platform, there's zenity. It's mostly for Linux but there are Mac and Windows ports too.

Additionaly, with an external non-native Windows executable , there's. I have a way to do this with cmd, but it does basically include a file, but the file is deleted instantly after the vbs is executed. So it isn't really.