[phan]

I searched for such tool but did not find so I wrote myself. Maybe some of you can make use of this tiny tool

Features:
- standard styles (yes/no, ok/cancel, abort/retry,...) and icons
- selectable default button with timeout option
- only 1KB

Download:  msgbox.cab (1.33K)
Number of downloads: 303

[ricktendo]

Dude this is sweet... might be awesome for my INF uninstallers

[uid0]

I've used wprompt before, but at 5kb it's now looking bloated

[phan]

oh the old good WBAT . Just forgotten

[phan]

improved version can display countdown timer like this



download:  msgbox2.rar (960bytes)
Number of downloads: 321

[ricktendo]

OK I got the message boxes but n00b question:

How do i use the choices? meaning when i select OK or Cancell how do I use the number to go to a choice?

[phan]

use errorlevel, for example:

 msgbox "Setup will continue in %%d seconds." "Setup" 65 15
			  if errorlevel 2 goto :cancel
			
			rem *** put your stuff here in case the user clicks on OK or timed out ***
			
			:cancel

Here are the errorlevels returned:

0 Timed out
1 OK
2 Cancel
3 Abort
4 Retry
5 Ignore
6 Yes
7 No

You can also use %ERRORLEVEL% as environment variable, i.e.

if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="5" goto :ignore
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="4" goto :retry
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="3" goto :abort

This post has been edited by phan: 26 March 2007 - 09:06 AM

[rajesh.kumar]

wonderful my friend. thank u very much. ive been looking for this kind of app to execute cmds based on the user interest. u have fulfilled my interest.
Youve just got my 200th post.

This post has been edited by rajesh.kumar: 27 March 2007 - 08:31 AM

[uid0]

Quality

[phan]

thank u all
@rajesh: I'll wait for ur 999th post
btw, note on the double percent sign %%d above: this is because calling in cmd-file. If you run msgbox from other program, use only one percent sign %d (like printf())
And the number 65 in the example above is sum of 1+64 (OK Cancel + Information Icon). You may combine following box styles:

Buttons:
0 OK
1 OK Cancel
2 Abort, Retry, Ignore
3 Yes, No, Cancel
4 Yes, No
5 Retry, Cancel

Icon:
16 Error
32 Question
48 Exclamation
64 Information

Default button:
256 make 2nd button default
512 make 3rd button default

[rajesh.kumar]

is there a way to modify the caption of buttons like OK, Cancel etc

[uid0]

phan, on Mar 28 2007, 08:33 AM, said:

Buttons:
0 OK
1 OK Cancel
2 Abort, Retry, Ignore
3 Yes, No, Cancel
4 Yes, No
5 Retry, Cancel

The first param is the messagebox text, the second is the window title, third is the sum of the buttons + icon + default, fourth is the timeout in seconds.

[asgeirk]

Could you add a switch to always return errorlevel 0. I would like to use msgbox.exe as a program in MS SMS, and errorlevel <> 0 cause a stop.

thanx for an excellent program

[Aake]

Msgbox.exe - virus alert ???

My Avira Personal Antivirus send alarm when unpacking msgbox.cab


True virus ???

[uid0]

msgbox.cmd contains the text "format c:" - try changing that to something else and scan the extracted files again?
virustotal.com seems busy at the moment.

[Yatch]

Sintaxis

for print time add "in %%d"
If you run msgbox from other program, use only one percent sign %d (like printf())

"<Message>" "<Title>" "<Flag #1-5>" "<seconds>"

for non timeout use in seconds "0"

Flags:
You may combine following box styles:

0 = OK
1 = OK + Cancel
2 = Abort + Retry + Igonore
3 = Yes + No + Cancel
4 = Yes + No
5 = Retry + Cancel
6 = Cancel + Retry + Continue
Icon:
16 Error
32 Question
48 Exclamation
64 Information


Here are the errorlevels returned:

0 Timed out
1 OK
2 Cancel
3 Abort
4 Retry
5 Ignore
6 Yes
7 No
11 Continue

You can also use %ERRORLEVEL% as environment variable, i.e.

if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="5" goto :ignore
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="4" goto :retry
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="3" goto :abort

[war59312]

Anyone got something like this that works on Win7 x64?

[trucknut1999]

war59312, on 14 June 2011 - 04:44 AM, said:

Anyone got something like this that works on Win7 x64?

Here's a simple one line command that can be used inside a batch file. No problems with Win7 x64.

echo msgbox"my important message",64,"Some Import Title"> a.vbs & cscript a.vbs //T:5 & del a.vbs

Set your timeout by changing the //T:5 value

Coding References:
MsgBox: http://www.w3schools...func_msgbox.asp

CScript: http://www.microsoft...w.mspx?mfr=true