Msgbox

Msgbox

Displays a message in a dialog box, waits for the user to click a button, and returns a value indicating which button the user clicked.

MsgBox(prompt[, buttons][, title][, helpfile, context])

Arguments

prompt

String expression displayed as the message in the dialog box. The maximum length of prompt is approximately 1024 characters, depending on the width of the characters used. If prompt consists of more than one line, you can separate the lines using a carriage return character (Chr(13)), a linefeed character (Chr(10)), or carriage return–linefeed character combination (Chr(13) & Chr(10)) between each line.

buttons

Numeric expression that is the sum of values specifying the number and type of buttons to display, the icon style to use, the identity of the default button, and the modality of the message box. See Settings section for values. If omitted, the default value for buttons is 0.

title

String expression displayed in the title bar of the dialog box. If you omit title, the application name is placed in the title bar.

helpfile

String expression that identifies the Help file to use to provide context-sensitive Help for the dialog box. If helpfile is provided, context must also be provided. Not available on 16-bit platforms.

context

Numeric expression that identifies the Help context number assigned by the Help author to the appropriate Help topic. If context is provided, helpfile must also be provided. Not available on 16-bit platforms.

            The following example uses the MsgBox function to display a message box and return a value describing which button was clicked:

Example 1:

        Dim mymessage

        Mymessage = “hello world”

        Msgbox mymessage