MSGBOX - Changing default answer

[Mike Cuff]

Hello

I'd like to set the default answer to NO on YES/NO MSGBOX's.
By default, if user hits return on MSGBOX answer is always YES.
I want the default answer to always be NO.

all help appreciated
thanks
Mike C


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[Borje Hagsten]

Add %MB_DEFBUTTON2 to style. Or %MB_DEFBUTTON3, %MB_DEFBUTTON4, depending
on how many buttons there are. %MB_DEFBUTTON1 is default.

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[Egbert Zijlema]

Why not write a dialog by yourself? Here's an example.

#COMPILE EXE
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"
 
CALLBACK FUNCTION Buttons()
  SELECT CASE CBCTL
    CASE %IDYES
      MSGBOX "You clicked the no-button", 64, "Debugging......"
    CASE %IDNO
      MSGBOX "You clicked the yes-button", 64, "Debugging....."
  END SELECT
  DIALOG END CBHNDL, 0
END FUNCTION
 
SUB MessageDialog(caption AS STRING, message AS STRING)
  LOCAL hMB AS LONG, hIcon AS LONG, x AS LONG
 
  DIALOG NEW 0, caption, , , 220, 70, %WS_CAPTION OR %WS_SYSMENU TO hMB
  CONTROL ADD LABEL,  hMB, %WM_USER + 1, "", 10, 21, 0, 0, %SS_ICON
  CONTROL ADD LABEL,  hMB, %WM_USER + 2, message, 30, 21, 180, 28
  CONTROL ADD BUTTON, hMB, %IDYES, "No", 160, 50, 50, 14, %BS_DEFAULT OR %WS_TABSTOP CALL Buttons
  CONTROL ADD BUTTON, hMB, %IDNO, "Yes", 100, 50, 50, 14, %WS_TABSTOP CALL Buttons
  SysMenu& = GetSystemMenu(hMB, %FALSE)
  DeleteMenu SysMenu&, %SC_CLOSE, 0
  hIcon = LoadIcon(0, BYVAL %IDI_QUESTION)
  SendDlgItemMessage hMB, %WM_USER + 1, %STM_SETIMAGE, %IMAGE_ICON, hIcon
  DIALOG SHOW MODELESS hMB
  DO
    DIALOG DOEVENTS
    DIALOG GET SIZE hMB TO x, x
  LOOP WHILE x
END SUB
 
FUNCTION PBMain() AS LONG
  MessageDialog "Caption", "Do you really want to...."
END FUNCTION

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[Borje Hagsten]

Problem with writing own dialogs is language. Users expect Yes/No/Cancel
buttons to be in their own language, which is Ja/Nej/Avbryt in Swedish,
for example.

Which brings me to a question - shouldn't it be possible to get hold
of these language specific strings via some API call? Windows obviously
can change language via our language settings, so somewhere, there must
be a table containing all these strings.

If one knows what Id goes to what string, that would enable writing
enhanced controls and dialogs, like a MessageBox, that looks just
like a part of Windows, all the way..


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[Egbert Zijlema]

Interesting question, Borje.
Although.... what to think about this situation? For some or another reason our company installed an English version of Windows. Our regional settings are correctly set to "Dutch(standard)". So screen output for month- and day names is in Dutch. But the controls of a message box appear in English. Therefore I write my own MB's with Dutch text for the controls.
But you are right, if your applications are ment for world wide use, it would be a good thing if Windows could provide 'yes', 'no', 'cancel' and that sort of words as locales.

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[Semen Matusovski]

Actually a question is deeply.
Problem with standart Msgbox is that Yes/No or Ja/Nein depends of Windows release only and do not depepend of language settings.
(BTW, reshacker shows me in kernel32.dll (Win2000) russian strings only).

Problems with own dialogs: could be another charset.
Unf. even setting a font with own charset doesn't fix a problem (for example, in Win2000).
Own-drawn buttons only.

The same story with menu, caption and so on.

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[Egbert Zijlema]

Hi fellows,

In the source code forum you'll find code to produce message boxes with button texts in your own language.

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[John Kovacich]

What good is a local language on the buttons if the message remeains
the same? Isn't it the programmers responsibility to change the language
of the message, at which time he/she can select the correct button
phrases as well?

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Thanks,

John Kovacich

[Egbert Zijlema]

Hey John!
It is just to demonstrate how to change the text for the buttons. Of course the message itself should be in the same language, but that is not the important thing here..


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[Borje Hagsten]

This is probably only a problem outside English-speaking countries.
We use a lot English-speaking software and while messages usually
are in English, standard buttons, etc. still are in native language.

Not that people ever seem to read what it says in messages/on buttons,
but still - it would be nice to be able to find a way to get the local
resource strings, that obviously do exist. In my USER32.EXE, I can see
some of them. Each language version seems to have their own strings, but
resource id's should be the same.

I'll see if I can find a way to get hold of them later on..


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[Egbert Zijlema]

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[This message has been edited by Egbert Zijlema (edited March 14, 2001).]

[Egbert Zijlema]

Borje,

I'm quite sure, Windows has no 'locales' for MsgBox controls.
Windows API has a function MessageBoxEx. You can pass a language-ID here, but as far as I've experienced it does not work in the way you're thinking of.

dummy& = MessageBoxEx(0, szMessage, szCaption, MAKLNG(%LANG_DUTCH, %SUBLANG_DUTCH))

does not create Dutch controls with a non-Dutch Windows version. It only works on a computer whith a Dutch version of Windows installed. But... the normal MessageBox FUNCTION, so without the LangID-param, does exactly the same thing. In other words MessageBoxEx is rather useless. See: http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q152/6/70.asp

Semen,
Thanks for replying to my MAKELANGID question, elsewhere in this Forum.


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[This message has been edited by Egbert Zijlema (edited March 14, 2001).]