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**Stuart McLachlan** · 20 May 2023, 03:06 AM

Originally posted by Denis Gura View Post

Hi guys,

Can someone help me with resizing?

Note this thread is in "Programming", not "PowerBASIC Console Complier", so I just knocked up a DDT MsgBox alternative in PBWin that lets you change fonts and colours and also auto-sizes and centres on the desktop.

DDT custom Message Box - PowerBASIC Peer Support Community

https://forum.powerbasic.com/forum/user-to-user-discussions/source-code/823695-ddt-custom-message-box#post823695

' 'Replacement Message Box t with selectable font and colours. Autosizes and positions in centre of screen. #COMPILE EXE #DIM ALL FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG LOCAL lRet AS LONG LOCAL wsMsg AS WSTRING wsMsg = "This is the new message box." & $LF & _ "Nice isn't it?. Or it is no?" & $LF & _

Unlike the standard Messagebox,this doen't arbitrarily wrap lines greater than a certain, variable length.
The problem with erratic line breaking in a messagebox is discussecd here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71037262/is-it-possible-to-turn-off-automatic-line-wrapping-in-messagebox

Also see Raymond Chen:

Why doesn't my MessageBox wrap at the right location? - The Old New Thing

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110624-00/?p=10343

A customer reported that the MessageBox function was wrapping text “at the wrong location.” Our program displays a message with the MessageBox function, and we use the ‘n’ character to force line breaks at positions we choose. But we’ve found that starting in Windows Vista,

**Stuart McLachlan** · 20 May 2023, 09:48 PM

I've just posted a new version of the DDT scalable messagebox replacement.
This one displays the standard %MB_ICONxxxxxxxx icons, scaled appropriately

DDT custom Message Box - PowerBASIC Peer Support Community

https://forum.powerbasic.com/forum/user-to-user-discussions/source-code/823695-ddt-custom-message-box?p=823717#post823717

' 'Replacement for Message Box with selectable font and colours. Autosizes and positions in centre of screen. #COMPILE EXE #DIM ALL FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG LOCAL lRet AS LONG LOCAL wsMsg AS WSTRING wsMsg = "This is the new message box." & $LF & _ "Nice isn't it?. Or it is no?" & $LF &

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