Auto closing a MsgBox

[Martin Francom]

How do I auto close a MsgBox ?

I have a simple little program that creates a message box to tell the user that the operation was successful or not.

Is there a way to get the MsgBox to AUTO-CLOSE after so many seconds?

[José Roca]

See this discussion:
Timed Messagebox

http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=1639.0

[Martin Francom]

José

Thanks. That's the simpliest solution that I have seen. There were other solutions offerred here. But this is by far the simplest.

I hope you don't mind, but for easy referrence on this forum I have copied your solution here.

' code by José Roca
#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL
#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"

GLOBAL szMsgBoxTitle AS ASCIIZ * 256

SUB TimedMsgBoxProc (BYVAL hwnd AS DWORD, BYVAL uMsg AS DWORD, BYVAL idEvent AS DWORD, BYVAL dwTime AS DWORD) 
   SendMessage FindWindow("", szMsgBoxTitle), %WM_CLOSE, 0, 0
END SUB

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG

   LOCAL dwTimerID AS DWORD
   LOCAL lRes AS LONG
   
   szMsgBoxTitle = "Timed Message Box"
   dwTimerID = SetTimer(0, 0, 5000, CODEPTR(TimedMsgBoxProc))
   lRes = MSGBOX("Timed message box test", %MB_OK, szMsgBoxTitle)
   KillTimer 0, dwTimerId

END FUNCTION

[Mel Bishop]

I had he exact same question. You can find the answer here:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=12978

and/or

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=22967

[Edwin Knoppert]

I do not agree with the code above, in this case a close may be ok but actually you should 'click' the button.
Each button has the same id as the output and should be used instead.
(Imagne a YES/NO box and so on)

A msgbox has no close button but the source does close it.. the hard way.

[Mike Doty]

Here is one that also works on a command line which is useful within batch files.
Using a timer will not always work as expected if you use a statement like TCP OPEN which is in a wait state.
Running in another thread solves that problem.

#DIM ALL
#COMPILE EXE  'Sleeper.bas  [URL]http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=40472[/URL]
#INCLUDE "win32api.inc"
GLOBAL gsMessageBox AS STRING
FUNCTION PBMAIN AS LONG
   gsMessageBox = "Press Enter, click OK or wait 2000 milliseconds"
   Sleeper 2000  'wait 2000 milliseconds
 END FUNCTION
FUNCTION Sleeper (milliseconds AS DWORD) AS LONG
   LOCAL hThread AS DWORD
   IF LEN(COMMAND$) THEN                'override passed value
    milliseconds = ABS(VAL(COMMAND$))  'use value in COMMAND$
  END IF
  THREAD CREATE TimedMessageBoxThread(milliseconds) TO hThread
  SLEEP 50
  WaitForSingleObject hThread, milliseconds
  THREAD CLOSE hThread TO hThread
 END FUNCTION
THREAD FUNCTION TimedMessageBoxThread(BYVAL milliseconds AS DWORD) AS LONG
 #IF %DEF(%PB_CC32)
  ? gsMessageBox
  WAITKEY$
#ELSE
  ? gsMessageBox
#ENDIF
END FUNCTION

[Michael Mattias]

If sending that message to a console screen instead of a GUI-type message box would be OK...
Wait for key, click or clock for PB/WIN and PB/CC

(You'll never guess from the title what it does!)

[Michael Mattias]

>WaitForSingleObject hThread, milliseconds

In the demo shown this may as well be ....

SLEEP milliseconds

.. because the only reason this 'works' is that you reach the end of PBMAIN when WFSO returns at which point the compiler calls ExitProcess which terminates all threads of execution.

Which of course means, this function is not usable EXCEPT when it's the last thing the program does.

If you waited %INFINITE it would wait on the user to Hit a key (PBCC) or click OK (PBWIN).

[Mike Doty]

WaitForSingleObject is required.
Pressing/clicking would always wait with a SLEEP statement.
This code could be improved to return if user performed an action or time was reached.

#DIM ALL    'MessageBoxWait.bas
#COMPILE EXE
#INCLUDE "win32api.inc"
GLOBAL gsMessageBox AS STRING
FUNCTION PBMAIN AS LONG
   MessageBoxWait "How now brown cow", 2000
   ? "Done"
END FUNCTION
SUB MessageBoxWait (s AS STRING,milliseconds AS DWORD)
   LOCAL hThread AS DWORD
   IF LEN(COMMAND$) THEN                'override passed value
    milliseconds = ABS(VAL(COMMAND$))  'use value in COMMAND$
  END IF
  gsMessageBox = s
  THREAD CREATE TimedMessageBoxThread(milliseconds) TO hThread
  WaitForSingleObject hThread, milliseconds
  REM SLEEP milliseconds  'wrong, would always wait
  THREAD CLOSE hThread TO hThread
END SUB
THREAD FUNCTION TimedMessageBoxThread(BYVAL milliseconds AS DWORD) AS LONG
 #IF %DEF(%PB_CC32)
  ? gsMessageBox
  WAITKEY$
#ELSE
  ? gsMessageBox
#ENDIF
END FUNCTION

[Michael Mattias]

DUH, where is my head today....

WFSO is going to return in 'millseconds' or less... whichever occurs first:
A. User hits a key (PBCC) or clicks OK on MSGBOX (PB/Win) (ends function, signals the thread object resulting in WFSO returning WAIT_OBJECT_0)
B. 'Millseconds' elapse. (WFSO returns WAIT_TIMEOUT)

... which is what you wanted.

However, the function TimedMessageBoxThread() is going to execute until "A" occurs or the process ends.

MCM