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How can I show only Cancel button on Messagebox

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    sheshidar
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    Hi All, I am trying to show a message box with only one button"Cancel".

    int MessageBox( HWND hWnd,
    LPCTSTR lpText,
    LPCTSTR lpCaption,
    UINT uType
    );

    in uType we can give MB_OK or MB_OKCANCEL. But I want to have only one button on messagebox ie "Cancel". how can I get this. Thanks .. Sheshidar

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      Hi All, I am trying to show a message box with only one button"Cancel".

      int MessageBox( HWND hWnd,
      LPCTSTR lpText,
      LPCTSTR lpCaption,
      UINT uType
      );

      in uType we can give MB_OK or MB_OKCANCEL. But I want to have only one button on messagebox ie "Cancel". how can I get this. Thanks .. Sheshidar

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      Hamid Taebi
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      You can use of MB_OK.

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        Hi All, I am trying to show a message box with only one button"Cancel".

        int MessageBox( HWND hWnd,
        LPCTSTR lpText,
        LPCTSTR lpCaption,
        UINT uType
        );

        in uType we can give MB_OK or MB_OKCANCEL. But I want to have only one button on messagebox ie "Cancel". how can I get this. Thanks .. Sheshidar

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        Saurabh Garg
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        I don't think it is possible with MessabeBox. You can simple create your own dialog and add a single cancel button. -Saurabh

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          You can use of MB_OK.

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          Saurabh Garg
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          Yes but MB_OK is not going to give him Cancel button. -Saurabh

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            I don't think it is possible with MessabeBox. You can simple create your own dialog and add a single cancel button. -Saurabh

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            sheshidar
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            Thanks Guys, I created a new dialog to work with cancel button. I wanted to try with messagebox only. Any way thanks for ur replies.

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              Thanks Guys, I created a new dialog to work with cancel button. I wanted to try with messagebox only. Any way thanks for ur replies.

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              Saurabh Garg
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              You are welcome. Btw you may want to check out XMessageBox - A reverse-engineered MessageBox() [^]. It has more functionality then standard MessageBox and also allows custom buttons. -Saurabh

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              • S Saurabh Garg

                Yes but MB_OK is not going to give him Cancel button. -Saurabh

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                Hamid Taebi
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                I dont think we have MB_CANCEL but I think he can changes title of button.

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                  I dont think we have MB_CANCEL but I think he can changes title of button.

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                  Saurabh Garg
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                  After reading MSDN documentation I couldn't find anything. Do you know how to do that? -Saurabh

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                    After reading MSDN documentation I couldn't find anything. Do you know how to do that? -Saurabh

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                    Hamid Taebi
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                    You can get a handle to a messagebox window and then you can change text of it.

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                    • H Hamid Taebi

                      You can get a handle to a messagebox window and then you can change text of it.

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                      Saurabh Garg
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                      MessageBox is a modal window so it blocks the calling thread. So once you call MessageBox then unless you dismiss it nothing else can be done. -Saurabh

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                      • S Saurabh Garg

                        MessageBox is a modal window so it blocks the calling thread. So once you call MessageBox then unless you dismiss it nothing else can be done. -Saurabh

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                        Hamid Taebi
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                        I saw my files it was on the C#.

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                          I saw my files it was on the C#.

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                          Saurabh Garg
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                          I hate to do this but it is not going to work in C# as well. System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox mimics MessageBox in windows. So there is no option to use just the Cancel button. -Saurabh

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                            I hate to do this but it is not going to work in C# as well. System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox mimics MessageBox in windows. So there is no option to use just the Cancel button. -Saurabh

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                            Hamid Taebi
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                            Saurabh.Garg wrote:

                            I hate to do this but it is not going to work in C#

                            Why c# is good I think its easy to learn anyway maybe you like to see Dissecting the MessageBox[^].

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                              Saurabh.Garg wrote:

                              I hate to do this but it is not going to work in C#

                              Why c# is good I think its easy to learn anyway maybe you like to see Dissecting the MessageBox[^].

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                              Saurabh Garg
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                              I never asked why C# is good!!! We were talking about MessageBox. I have seen that article and it create a new class for doing custom stuff. It has got nothing to do with MessageBox WinAPI provides. -Saurabh

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