Multiple line in MessageBox

[Cedric Moonen]

Hello, I have a long text to print in a MessageBox so I want it on several lines. I tried something like: MessageBox(NULL,"Test\n\rTest","",MB_OK); but it doesn't work!! I want also the string to be loaded from a file so the 'escape sequences' will be in the string! Thanks

[Joaquin M Lopez Munoz]

It works wonderfully for me (also, you can omit the \r part). Test sample follows:

#include <windows.h>

int main()
{
MessageBox(NULL,"Test\nTest","",MB_OK);

return 0;
}

Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

[Zdeslav Vojkovic]

i tried MessageBox(NULL,"Test\n\rTest","",MB_OK); on my system(win2K) and it works fine???

[jeremysay]

hello, try

MessageBox(NULL,"Test\r\nTest","",MB_OK);

i have try

MessageBox(NULL,"Test\n\rTest","",MB_OK);

on my system(XP) and it works fine ...

[Cedric Moonen]

Thanks everybody ! Sorry, in fact I did not try the MessageBox(NULL,"Test\n\rTest","",MB_OK); but loaded the string from a file !! So the \n is no more interpreted as an escape sequence but as normal text !! So I think it will not be possible to have such an escape sequence in a text file! Or do you have any suggestion ??

[Rage]

This depends on the way you are "loading" your text. With a standard fopen(filename,"r") will throw the problem you mentioned, whereas fopen(filename,"rt") won't. Check the fopen for this in the MSDN. ~RaGE();

[Cedric Moonen]

Yes, thanks :) ! I'll take a look at that !!