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Line breaks can be inserted with Chr$(13).</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150769" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 56<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> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147228" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 58<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> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161832" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">0 : Display OK button only.</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">1 : Display OK and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149665" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="11">2 : Display Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons.</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147318" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">3 : Display Yes, No and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">4 : Display Yes and No buttons.</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146119" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">5 : Display Retry and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159155" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">16 : Add the Stop icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145366" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">32 : Add the Question icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147350" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">48 : Add the Exclamation icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149960" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">64 : Add the Information icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154944" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">128 : First button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155417" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">256 : Second button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153878" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">512 : Third button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 72<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 73<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 74<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150715" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="22">Example:</paragraph> 75<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154511" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Sub ExampleMsgBox</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150327" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Const sText1 = "An unexpected error occurred."</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146912" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Const sText2 = "The program execution will continue, however."</paragraph> 78<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154757" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Const sText3 = "Error"</paragraph> 79<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155445" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">MsgBox(sText1 + Chr(13) + sText2,16,sText3)</paragraph> 80<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">End sub</paragraph> 81</body> 82</helpdocument> 83