Extended MessageBox Library (assembly) for .NET

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• Adjustable message font and font color. The dialog resizes automatically to accomodate messages in fonts larger than regular.
• Dialog background can be painted with solid colors, hatch patterns, bitmap files
• Dialog icon can be loaded from ICO file, resource file (EXE, DLL), or a file type (e.g. *.pdf)
• Dialog‘s width and height can be either restricted or forced to specified values
• Dialog window can be positioned at a specified point, or aligned with monitor border
• A click on the message opens a web page in default browser
• A click on the icon opens a web page in default browser
• Button captions and fonts can be user-defined
• Buttons can be disabled
• Buttons can have tooltips
• Three additional buttons available
• Additional controls available: Text Input, CheckBox, WebLink
• The dialog can be closed on timeout
• OS supported: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 7

Download Help File for the Extended MessageBox .NET Assembly

Style MessageBoxes in your application in unique and creative way

• Add code configuring extended MessageBox features to the Init section of the application.
• When application runs, all MessageBox dialogs appear on screen having extended features configured uniformly: dimensions, position, fonts, backgrounds etc.

Present user with more than 3 choices

• Adjust dialog button captions (for example [Yes, No and Cancel] becomes [Forward, Back and Stop] )
• Activate up to 3 additional buttons
• Draw user attention to a button by choosing a different font.
• Add tooltips to some buttons.
• Disable some of dialog buttons optionally.
• Enable CheckBox control. Its Checked status can be retrieved after the dialog returns control to the application.

Use wide variety of icons and backgrounds

• Display dialog icons contained in ICO files, in resource files, and linked to file types.
• Paint dialog background with solid colors, hatch patterns, and with bitmap files.

Use MessageBox for collecting user input

• Enable Text Input control each time a text input from user is expected: password, error description, and so on.

Automatically close MessageBox after a specified amount of time

• Assign Timeout parameter (milliseconds). This can make a difference for an application running in occasionally unattended mode.

Link MessageBox dialog to the Web

• Enable Web Link control
• Assign web link to the dialog icon.
• Assign web link to the dialog message.

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private void TestXMsgDialog()
{
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    //Message settings
    DlgMgr.AssignMessageFont("Arial", 27, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0);
    DlgMgr.MessageFontColor = Color.Navy;
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    //Turning dialog extended features on
    //will affect all consecutive MessageBox.Show calls
    DlgMgr.DlgMonitorEnabled = true;
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    MessageBox.Show("This is a test!",
        "Extended MessageBox .NET Assembly",
        MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel,
        MessageBoxIcon.Information);
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}
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private void TestXMsgDialog()
{
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    //Dialog Dimension settings
    DlgMgr.AssignDlgMaxSize(570, 0);
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    //Dialog Position settings
    DlgMgr.AssignDlgPosition(100, 200,
        XMessageBoxPositionMode.AbsolutePosition);
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    //Dialog Button settings
    DlgMgr.AssignButtonCaption(XMessageBoxButton.ButtonAux01, "Download");
    DlgMgr.AssignButtonCaption(XMessageBoxButton.ButtonCancel, "Exit");
    DlgMgr.AssignButtonCaption(XMessageBoxButton.ButtonOk, "Next");
    DlgMgr.AssignButtonFont(XMessageBoxButton.ButtonOk,
        "", 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0);
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    //Dialog Background settings
    DlgMgr.UdfBackcolorsEnabled = true;
    DlgMgr.LoadBackColorFromSolidColor(XMessageBoxBackground.DlgWindow,
        Color.FromArgb(-399668));
    DlgMgr.LoadBackColorFromSolidColor(XMessageBoxBackground.ToolBarWindow,
        Color.FromArgb(-4082785));
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    //Dialog Icon settings
    DlgMgr.UdfIconsEnabled = true;
    DlgMgr.LoadIconFromFileType(XMessageBoxIcon.UserIcon, "*.cs");
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    //Web Link Control settings
    DlgMgr.EnableHrefCtrl(
        "http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?solution=5",
        "Extended MessageBox .NET web page",
        Color.FromArgb(-16776961));
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    //CheckBox Control settings
    DlgMgr.EnableCheckBoxCtrl("Skip Intro", false);
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    //Message settings
    DlgMgr.AssignMessageFont("Segoe UI", 14, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
    DlgMgr.MessageFontColor = Color.FromArgb(0x32, 0x32, 0x32);
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    //Turning dialog extended features on
    //will affect all consecutive MessageBox.Show calls
    DlgMgr.DlgMonitorEnabled = true;
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    MessageBox.Show("MessageBox Class displays a message box " +
        "that can contain text, buttons, and symbols " +
        "that inform and instruct the user.",
        "Extended MessageBox .NET Assembly",
        MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel,
        MessageBoxIcon.Information);
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    //DlgMgr members populated upon dialog closing:
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    //DlgMgr.ClosedOnTimeout
        //returns True when the dialog gets closed on a timeout;
        //otherwise returns False
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    //DlgMgr.AuxButtonPressed
        //returns aux.button ID (11, 12, or 13) if that closed the dialog;
        //otherwise returns zero
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    //DlgMgr.CheckBoxState
        //returns CheckBox control‘s Checked state;
        //returns False when the control was not shown
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    //DlgMgr.TextInputValue
        //returns text entered in the Text Input control;
        //returns empty string when the control not shown
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}
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