What is MessageBox

MessageBox from Claudiosoft is a freeware 32-bit command line utility for Windows 9x/NT/2000 that you can use in batch files to launch a message box and get an answer from the user.

The possible answers are : YES/NO, OK/CANCEL, YES/NO/CANCEL.

Here is an example :

@echo off
MSGBOX.EXE "This is a sample message.\nDo you want to continue ?" "MessageBox Test" YESNOCANCEL
if errorlevel 7 goto NO
if errorlevel 6 goto YES
if errorlevel 2 goto CANCEL
REM if errorlevel 1 goto OK
goto fin

:no
echo You don't want to continue.
goto fin
:yes
echo You want to continue.
goto fin
:cancel
echo You don't want to go further.
goto fin
:ok
echo ok
goto fin
:fin

Warning : Remember that the command "if errorlevel 6" means that the return value is larger or equal than 6. That is why the different cases are always put in a decreasing order.

History

May 3, 2000 - Version 1.10
added : the "title" parameter is no longer necessary.
added : if no "YESNO" parameter is not put, the default behavior is to launch a message box with a OK button only.
added : you can add an empty line in your message by using "\n".

April 14, 2000 - Version 1.00 : first public release

Download

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Download MessageBox 1.10.

Installation Instructions

Simply unzip the file to a directory of your choice (you may need Winzip for that). Open a DOS prompt, go to the directory where msgbox.exe has been decompressed and type msgbox to get the syntax.

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