UI.messagebox "beep"

[honoluludesktop]

OK! Thanks.

[Jim]

There are other series of icons for the messagebox. The default series shows when you use the MB_ type constants:

["MB_OK", "MB_OKCANCEL", "MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE", "MB_YESNOCANCEL", "MB_YESNO", "MB_RETRYCANCEL", "MB_MULTILINE"]

But if add some constant value to these (excluding MB_MULTILINE), you can get a series of messageboxes using different icons. Here are the constants and the icon series you get:

[honoluludesktop]

Jim, that looks good. Not in the API?

[thomthom]

@honoluludesktop said:

Jim, that looks good. Not in the API?

It's there.
http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/ui.html#messagebox

But the return value constant isn't. See the comments at the bottom of the page.

[Jim]

The API doesn't mention anything about being able to use a certain icon series by adding a values to the MB constants.

I wonder if the return values are still the same in this case?

[thomthom]

Ah, yea I see now what you mean. Yea - these should be mapped. I had been wishing for such control - similar to what I had in VB and C#.

[thomthom]

What would probably make it easier to map out was to print out the binary value so we can see which bits are turned on.

[thomthom]

32.to_s(2) 100000 48.to_s(2) 110000 64.to_s(2) 1000000 80.to_s(2) 1010000 272.to_s(2) 100010000

[honoluludesktop]

How do I "add some constant value" to the following?
UI:messagebox "my text "+variable, MB_OK

[thomthom]

Use the bitwise And operator to combine flags:
Messagebox with Yes/No button and question mark icon:
UI.messagebox('Hello World', MB_YESNO | 32)

[honoluludesktop]

WOW

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[thomthom]

The Win32 API docs helped:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms645505%28VS.85%29.aspx

Stop: 0x00000010 = 16
Question: 0x00000020 = 32
Explaination (Yellow Alert Triangle): 0x00000030 = 48
Information (Blue Info Circle): 0x00000040 = 64

[thomthom]

[16,32,48,64,80].each { |i| puts i.to_s(2).rjust(8,'0') } 00010000 00100000 00110000 01000000 01010000

[Dan Rathbun]

I went thru this a fee months ago or so:

It's a Win only thing so far as I know, but I'd like to see what happens on the Mac.

Here's a text report of all the integers and the resultant button styles you get. (I believe some of the icons are deprected, specifically the question icon.)

UI_messagebox.txt

[RunnerPack]

@thomthom said:

Use the bitwise And operator to combine flags:
Messagebox with Yes/No button and question mark icon:
UI.messagebox('Hello World', MB_YESNO | 32)

That's actually the Or operator... but you knew that

Sorry... pedantic mode, off!

@Dan: I've also always wondered what all the obviously-Win32-API-based things did on the Mac version... I always assumed they just translated stuff to the appropriate Mac system-calls/constants, but it would be nice to know for sure.

[thomthom]

@runnerpack said:

@thomthom said:

Use the bitwise And operator to combine flags:
Messagebox with Yes/No button and question mark icon:
UI.messagebox('Hello World', MB_YESNO | 32)

That's actually the Or operator... but you knew that

Doh! I swear there's a little brain-gnome that intercepts and swaps words before they reach the hands...