The MsgBox Assistant feature allows you to generate message boxes easily.
MZ-Tools offers the following ways to launch the MsgBox Assistant:
- The Tools | MZ-Tools | Other Utilities | MsgBox Assistant menu.
- The MZ-Tools | MsgBox Assistant context menu of a code window.
- The Other Utilities | MsgBox Assistant menu on the MZ-Tools toolbar.
- The shortcut customized in the Options window, Shortcuts tab.
The MsgBox Assistant window is the following:
In this window you can enter the following:
- Title: the title of the message box. It can be App.Title or a custom one.
- Icon: the icon of the message box or none.
- Text: the prompt of the message box.
- Buttons and default button: the combination of buttons of the message box and the button which will be preselected when showing the message box.
- vbSystemModal: check this setting if the message box should be accepted before continuing using any application and not only the current application.
- vbMsgBoxRight: check this setting if you want to display text with alignment to the right.
- vbMsgBoxRtlReading: check this setting if you want to display text in a right-to-left reading order (Hebrew and Arabic systems).
- Help ID.:the help identifier (optional). If you enter a value, App.HelpFile will be used.
Once you have entered all the values, you can:
- Preview the message box.
- Insert the message box code into the current procedure.
- Copy the message box code to the clipboard for later use.
If the message box includes only the OK button, then the generated code will be like this:
Call MsgBox("The file can not be copied.", vbExclamation, App.Title)
Otherwise it will be like this:
Select Case MsgBox("The file can not be copied.", vbAbortRetryIgnore + vbExclamation + vbDefaultButton1, App.Title)
Case vbAbort
Case vbRetry
Case vbIgnore
End Select
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