The joys of MsgBox's

Everyone uses MsgBox's, but most people just use it in the form of:<br><br>
MsgBox("Hello World")<br><br>
What most people don't realise is that the MsgBox function has a wide variety of functions.<br><br>
The proper syntax of the function is:<br><br>
MsgBox([Message], [options], [title], [Help File], [Context])<br><br>
For the purpose of not getting into too much advanced stuff here, we won't go into [context], we'll just leave it as vbNull, or not put anything in there at all.<br><br>
For [Message] You can put whatever you like surrounded in quotes. The basic string!<br>
For [options] you can put a combination of items using the Or keyword. [options] allows you to specify the buttons on the MsgBox (ok, cancel, retry, help, etc.), and/or the icon that appears on it. There are a bunch of already defined constants that VB allows you to use (seperate by the Or keyword if you want to use more than one, which I have already mentioned).<br><br>
vbCritical = The big red circle with an X in the middle of it<br>
vbExclamation = The yellow triangle with the exclamation point in it<br>
vbInformation = The white text bubble with the big i in it<br>
vbQuestion = The white text bubble with the big question mark in it<br><br>
<b>Note:</b> You cannot combine icons, if you try to, none of them will show up.<br><br>
You can also set which buttons show up, the names of the constants pretty much resemble what they do, for example:<br><br>
vbYesNo = Gives the user the option of hitting Yes or No<br>
vbOKOnly = Gives the user only the option to hit OK<br>
vbAbortRetryIgnore = Abort, Retry, and Ignore options are given.<br>
vbMsgBoxHelpButton = This will make a help button, and can be combined with vbOKOnly and vbCancelOnly.<br><br>
Try entering this into Visual Basic:<br>
Call MsgBox("Cannot Find File", vbCritical Or vbAbortRetryIgnore)<br>
Pretty neat eh?<br><br>
The last two options we should look at are:<br><br>
vbSystemModal, and vbApplicationModal<br>
vbApplicationModal prevents the user from preforming any work in the app until a button it pushed. vbSystemModal keeps the MsgBox on top of all windows until a button is pushed.<br><br>
The next setting is [title], this is pretty straight forward, as it sets the title for the MsgBox. If it is not set, the title will be the title of the application, NOT the form.<br><br>
[help file] is the path to the help file (in quotations), that will pop up when the user clicks the Help button if you include one. A help button will only be there if yoiu include a vbMsgBoxHelpButton in your options.<br><br>
Another great function of MsgBox's, are their ability to return values, for example, asking for confirmation, you could use some bit of code like:<br><br>
Dim X<br>
X = MsgBox("Are you sure?", vbInformation Or vbYesNo, "Confirmation")<br>
If X = vbYes Then Call MsgBox("Thanks", vbOKOnly)<br><br>Visual Basic also has a list of constants used to evaluate return values resulting from MsgBox's. They are pretty self explanitory, I'm sure you wouldn't even need to browse through a list to get most, if not all of them, some of them are as follows:<br><br>
vbYes = The 'Yes' button was pressed<br>
vbNo = The 'No' button was pressed<br>
vbCancel = The 'Cancel' button was pressed<br>
vbAbort = The 'About' button was pressed<br>
vbRetry = The 'Retry' button was pressed<br><br>
I'm sure you get the idea :)<br><br>
Last thing we're gonna look at, is making multiple lines of text. It's actually very very easy, by using the vbCrLf constant that VB has. When making your [Message] try throwing it in as you would a TextBox. For example:<br><br>
Call MsgBox("Hello" & vbCrLf & "World")<br><br><br>
Well, there's my input for today, you should all be experts on MsgBox's now, I hope I helped at least one person, I know it's a bit useless, but everyone uses MsgBox's, and it's good to know what you can do, just in case you get stuck.<br><br>
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Regards,<br>
DarkStarX