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27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">MsgBox Statement [Runtime]</title>
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34<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id1807916"><bookmark_value>MsgBox statement</bookmark_value>
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36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154927" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03010101.xhp">MsgBox Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148947" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Displays a dialog box containing a message.</paragraph>
38</section>
39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153897" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
40<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">MsgBox Text As String [,Type As Integer [,Dialogtitle As String]] (As Statement) or MsgBox (Text As String [,Type As Integer [,Dialogtitle As String]]) (As Function)</paragraph>
41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153361" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameter:</paragraph>
42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148798" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">
43<emph>Text</emph>: String expression displayed as a message in the dialog box. Line breaks can be inserted with Chr$(13).</paragraph>
44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150769" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">
45<emph>DialogTitle</emph>: String expression displayed in the title bar of the dialog. If omitted, the title bar displays the name of the respective application.</paragraph>
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47<emph>Type</emph>: Any integer expression that specifies the dialog type, as well as the number and type of buttons to display, and the icon type. <emph>Type</emph> represents a combination of bit patterns, that is, a combination of elements can be defined by adding their respective values:</paragraph>
48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161832" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">0 : Display OK button only.</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">1 : Display OK and Cancel buttons.</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149665" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="11">2 : Display Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons.</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147318" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">3 : Display Yes, No and Cancel buttons.</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">4 : Display Yes and No buttons.</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146119" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">5 : Display Retry and Cancel buttons.</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159155" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">16 : Add the Stop icon to the dialog.</paragraph>
55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145366" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">32 : Add the Question icon to the dialog.</paragraph>
56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147350" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">48 : Add the Exclamation icon to the dialog.</paragraph>
57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149960" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">64 : Add the Information icon to the dialog.</paragraph>
58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154944" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">128 : First button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph>
59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155417" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">256 : Second button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph>
60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153878" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">512 : Third button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph>
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63<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150715" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="22">Example:</paragraph>
64<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154511" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Sub ExampleMsgBox</paragraph>
65<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150327" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Const sText1 = "An unexpected error occurred."</paragraph>
66<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146912" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Const sText2 = "The program execution will continue, however."</paragraph>
67<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154757" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Const sText3 = "Error"</paragraph>
68<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155445" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">MsgBox(sText1 + Chr(13) + sText2,16,sText3)</paragraph>
69<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">End sub</paragraph>
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