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Line breaks can be inserted with Chr$(13).</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 53<emph>DialogTitle</emph>: String expression displayed in the title bar of the dialog. If omitted, the name of the respective application is displayed.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153954" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10"> 55<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> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11"> 57<emph>Values</emph> 58</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147397" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">0 : Display OK button only.</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145646" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">1 : Display OK and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">2 : Display Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons.</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151075" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">3 : Display Yes, No, and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153878" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">4 : Display Yes and No buttons.</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155601" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">5 : Display Retry and Cancel buttons.</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150716" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">16 : Add the Stop icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153837" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">32 : Add the Question icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150751" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">48 : Add the Exclamation Point icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146915" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">64 : Add the Information icon to the dialog.</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145640" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">128 : First button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153765" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">256 : Second button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153715" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">512 : Third button in the dialog as default button.</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25"> 73<emph>Return value:</emph> 74</paragraph> 75<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">1 : OK</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149567" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">2 : Cancel</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id4056825" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">3 : Abort</paragraph> 78<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155335" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">4 : Retry</paragraph> 79<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146918" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">5 : Ignore</paragraph> 80<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155961" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="30">6 : Yes</paragraph> 81<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148488" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">7 : No</paragraph> 82<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 83<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 84<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150090" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="40">Example:</paragraph> 85<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">Sub ExampleMsgBox</paragraph> 86<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145131" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="42">Dim sVar as Integer</paragraph> 87<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151278" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="43">sVar = MsgBox("Las Vegas")</paragraph> 88<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149034" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="44">sVar = MsgBox("Las Vegas",1)</paragraph> 89<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3166424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="45">sVar = MsgBox( "Las Vegas",256 + 16 + 2,"Dialog title")</paragraph> 90<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3152581" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="46">end sub</paragraph> 91</body> 92</helpdocument> 93