1. message_box and EU 2.3?
Is there any way that message_box will display more than
one line of text? Also I was wondering how long till
Euphoria 2.3 is released? A few weeks or 6 months or more?
I've only written one windows program with Euphoria so far,
a fixed field database to keep up with my music collection.
I already had the data files so it's just about as easy to
write a new program for the data files than to type new data
into a existing database program. Anyway I like Euphoria a
lot. I am a hobbiest programmer since 1981. I have used
Atari BASIC, ACTION!, GFA Basic, HiSoft Basic, OSS Pascal,
Borland C, Java, and now Euphoria.
Thanks,
LarryMears at hotmail.com
2. Re: message_box and EU 2.3?
Larry,
all you need to do is put in a linefeed character to split a line.
eg.
constant LF = 10
VOID = message_box("abc" & LF & "def", "", 0)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Mears" <LarryMears at hotmail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: message_box and EU 2.3?
>
> Is there any way that message_box will display more than
> one line of text? Also I was wondering how long till
> Euphoria 2.3 is released? A few weeks or 6 months or more?
>
> I've only written one windows program with Euphoria so far,
> a fixed field database to keep up with my music collection.
> I already had the data files so it's just about as easy to
> write a new program for the data files than to type new data
> into a existing database program. Anyway I like Euphoria a
> lot. I am a hobbiest programmer since 1981. I have used
> Atari BASIC, ACTION!, GFA Basic, HiSoft Basic, OSS Pascal,
> Borland C, Java, and now Euphoria.
>
> Thanks,
> LarryMears at hotmail.com
>
>
>
3. Re: message_box and EU 2.3?
Larry Mears writes:
> Also I was wondering how long till
> Euphoria 2.3 is released? A few weeks or 6 months or more?
An alpha release should be out in about 2 months.
If it starts taking longer than that, I'll simply drop some
functionality.
The last interpreter release was a very long time ago,
because I spent most of my time developing the
Euphoria To C Translator as well as EDS.
Anyone who registers now, or who already registered
for 2.2 will get version 2.3 (of whatever package they bought) for free,
so there isn't much point in waiting.
The main, strategically significant thing about 2.3 is that
the source code will be available (for a modest price to be decided).
I hope that will make me somewhat less of a bottleneck.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
4. Re: message_box and EU 2.3?
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Larry Mears wrote:
> Is there any way that message_box will display more than
> one line of text?
Use: /n And: &
> I am a hobbiest programmer since 1981. I have used
> Atari BASIC, ACTION!, GFA Basic, HiSoft Basic, OSS Pascal,
> Borland C, Java, and now Euphoria.
Interesting coincidence. I used to program in Atari BASIC, then
ACTION!, then GFA BASIC. Way back in the 1980s.
Jerry Story
5. Re: message_box and EU 2.3?
Larry,
If you use "RunDemos" (included with Win32Lib) to look at "MsgBox" example,
it will show you how to make multiple lines in a Message box.
Following is that same example re-made into a "Template" which I will
include with my "Template Handler". (It seems likely "CrLf" is not actually
needed, just linefeed, as others have mentioned.)
Dan Moyer
-- Creating a WINDOWS MESSAGE BOX
-- you can create a "standard" Windows message box
-- containing various icons and user choice buttons,
-- and you can test for what the user clicks on in it.
-- start with: result = message_box(
-- followed by text enclosed in quotation marks;
-- (separate lines can be created by using "& CrLf & " after each line)
-- put a comma after the text;
-- followed by a TITLE for the message box in quotes,
-- followed by a comma;
-- following the comma after the title is a value which sets up
-- various buttons in the message box as well as other displayed items;
-- the value can be made up of various constants defined in Win32Lib,
-- which are described below;
-- they can be ADDED together with the "+" operator,
-- as shown below;
-- if the value is zero, a SIMPLE message box is created.
constant CrLf = { 13, 10 } -- carriage return/linefeed
-- this procedure should be made to be called by whatever event should
-- display the message (an error, information, "about" a program, etc)
procedure OnClick_MsgBoxButton()
atom result
result = message_box(
" This is some text in a Message Box;" & CrLf &
" you can put line after line of text here," & CrLf &
" practically as many as you want" & CrLf & CrLf &
" It will expand to a certain degree to fit long lines," & CrLf &
" but if your lines get really really really long like this one then it
will reach some maximum width and then put some of your text on a new line."
& CrLf & CrLf &
" It's generally better to use shorter lines," & CrLf &
"so you don't exceed the line length of the interpreter.",
"MESSAGE BOX", -- THE TITLE OF THE MESSAGE BOX
0 ) -- STYLE VALUE FOR VARIOUS
BUTTONS ETC
end procedure
onClick [MsgBoxButton] = routine_id("OnClick_MsgBoxButton")
-- MB_ICONQUESTION+MB_YESNOCANCEL+MB_TASKMODAL
-- which results in showing a question mark icon, with yes/no/cancel
buttons,
-- and the box must be closed by the user before anything else can be done
-- Possible style values for message_box() style sequence:
-- MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE = Abort, Retry, Ignore
-- MB_APPLMODAL = User must respond before doing something else
-- MB_DEFAULT_DESKTOP_ONLY = #20000,
-- MB_DEFBUTTON1 = First button is default button
-- MB_DEFBUTTON2 = Second button is default button
-- MB_DEFBUTTON3 = Third button is default button
-- MB_DEFBUTTON4 = Fourth button is default button
-- MB_HELP = Windows 95: Help button generates help event
-- MB_ICONASTERISK = Lowercase letter i in a circle appears
-- MB_ICONERROR = A hand appears
-- MB_ICONEXCLAMATION = Exclamation-point appears in the box
-- MB_ICONHAND = A hand appears
-- MB_ICONINFORMATION = MB_ICONASTERISK = Lowercase letter i in a circle
appears
-- MB_ICONQUESTION = A question-mark icon appears
-- MB_ICONSTOP = MB_ICONHAND
-- MB_ICONWARNING = MB_ICONEXCLAMATION
-- MB_OK = Message box contains one push button: OK
-- MB_OKCANCEL = Message box contains OK and Cancel
-- MB_RETRYCANCEL = Message box contains Retry and Cancel
-- MB_RIGHT = Windows 95: The text is right-justified
-- MB_RTLREADING = Windows 95: For Hebrew and Arabic systems
-- MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION = Windows NT: The caller is a service
-- MB_SETFOREGROUND = Message box becomes the foreground window
-- MB_SYSTEMMODAL = All applications suspended until user responds
-- MB_TASKMODAL = Similar to MB_APPLMODAL
-- MB_YESNO = Message box contains Yes and No
-- MB_YESNOCANCEL = Message box contains Yes, No, and Cancel
-- you can test for user actions by testing the return value from the
-- message box function.
-- possible values returned by MessageBox()
-- 0 means failure
-- IDABORT = 3, -- Abort button was selected.
-- IDCANCEL = 2, -- Cancel button was selected.
-- IDIGNORE = 5, -- Ignore button was selected.
-- IDNO = 7, -- No button was selected.
-- IDOK = 1, -- OK button was selected.
-- IDRETRY = 4, -- Retry button was selected.
-- IDYES = 6 -- Yes button was selected.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Mears" <LarryMears at hotmail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: message_box and EU 2.3?
>
> Is there any way that message_box will display more than
> one line of text? Also I was wondering how long till
> Euphoria 2.3 is released? A few weeks or 6 months or more?
>
> I've only written one windows program with Euphoria so far,
> a fixed field database to keep up with my music collection.
> I already had the data files so it's just about as easy to
> write a new program for the data files than to type new data
> into a existing database program. Anyway I like Euphoria a
> lot. I am a hobbiest programmer since 1981. I have used
> Atari BASIC, ACTION!, GFA Basic, HiSoft Basic, OSS Pascal,
> Borland C, Java, and now Euphoria.
>
> Thanks,
> LarryMears at hotmail.com
>
>
>
