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Line breaks can be inserted with Chr$(13).</paragraph> 45*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>DialogTitle:</emph> String expression displayed in the title bar of the dialog. If omitted, the name of the respective application is displayed.</paragraph> 46*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153954" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Type:</emph> Any integer expression that specifies the dialog type and defines the number and type of buttons or icons displayed. <emph>Type</emph> represents a combination of bit patterns (dialog elements defined by adding the respective values):</paragraph> 47*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Values:</emph></paragraph> 48*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147397" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">0 : Display OK button only.</paragraph> 49*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145646" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">1 : Display OK and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 50*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">2 : Display Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons.</paragraph> 51*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151075" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">3 : Display Yes, No, and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 52*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153878" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">4 : Display Yes and No buttons.</paragraph> 53*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155601" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">5 : Display Retry and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 54*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150716" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">16 : Add the Stop icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 55*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153837" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">32 : Add the Question icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 56*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150751" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">48 : Add the Exclamation Point icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 57*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146915" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">64 : Add the Information icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 58*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145640" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">128 : First button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 59*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153765" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">256 : Second button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 60*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">512 : Third button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 61*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Return value:</emph></paragraph> 62*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">1 : OK</paragraph> 63*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149567" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">2 : Cancel</paragraph> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id4056825" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">3 : Abort</paragraph> 65*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155335" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">4 : Retry</paragraph> 66*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146918" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">5 : Ignore</paragraph> 67*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155961" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">6 : Yes</paragraph> 68*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148488" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">7 : No</paragraph> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 71*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150090" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 72*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleMsgBox</paragraph> 73*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145131" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sVar as Integer</paragraph> 74*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151278" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sVar = MsgBox("Las Vegas")</paragraph> 75*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149034" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sVar = MsgBox("Las Vegas",1)</paragraph> 76*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3166424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sVar = MsgBox( "Las Vegas",256 + 16 + 2,"Dialog title")</paragraph> 77*fc046bdaSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3152581" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 78cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 79cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 80