style Property

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Defined By: MessageBox

Description:

Bitfield that determines the style of the box (Info, Yes/No/Cancel, etc.) This property specifies the arrangement of buttons, which button is the default, which icon is displayed, as well as which windows are unable to accept input while the box is displayed

Details:

MessageBox’s presentation is controlled by the value contained within the style property. The values that can be summed together to determine a box’s style are listed below.

To control which buttons appear on the form, one of the following values must be added into style:

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Buttons Values

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OK button only. MB_OK 0

OK and Cancel buttons. MB_OKCANCEL 1

Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons. MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE 2

Yes, No, and Cancel buttons MB_YESNOCANCEL 3

Yes and No buttons. MB_YESNO 4

Retry and Cancel buttons MB_RETRYCANCEL 5

To designate a default button, one of the following values should be added into style:

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Button Value

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First Button MB_DEFBUTTON1 0

Second Button MB_DEFBUTTON2 256

Third Button MB_DEFBUTTON3 512

To choose a particular icon, one of the following values must be added into style:

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Icon Value

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Stop Sign MB_ICONSTOP 16

Question Mark MB_ICONQUESTION 32

Exclamation Point MB_ICONEXCLAMATION 48

Info Icon MB_ICONINFORMATION 64

To control the modality of the box, one of the following values must be added into style:

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Modality Value

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Prevent interaction with any other
part of the application interface MB_APPLMODAL 0

Prevent interaction with any other
interface item on the system MB_SYSTEMMODAL 4096

Data Type: Long

See Also:

YesNoCancelBox, AbortRetryIgnoreBox, InfoBox, OKCancelBox, RetryCancelBox, YesNoBox, ResetStyle, SetIconExclamation, SetIconInfo, SetIconNone, SetIconQuestion, SetIconStop methods