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messagebox
Open a message box.
Calling Sequence
[btn] = messagebox(msg) [btn] = messagebox(msg, msgboxtitle) [btn] = messagebox(msg, msgboxtitle, msgboxicon) [btn] = messagebox(msg, msgboxtitle, msgboxicon) [btn] = messagebox(msg, msgboxtitle, msgboxicon, buttons) [btn] = messagebox(msg, msgboxtitle, msgboxicon, buttons, ismodal)
Arguments
- msg
Matrix of strings: the message box displays each entry of this matrix (one entry per line).
- msgboxtitle
String: the title of the message box (default value is "Scilab Message").
- msgboxicon
String: the name of the icon to be displayed in the message box, its possible values are:
"error"
"hourglass"
"info"
"passwd"
"question"
"warning"
"scilab": default icon
- buttons
1xn vector of strings: the names of the buttons to be displayed in the message box. By default, only one button is displayed with label "OK".
- modal
String: "modal" to create a modal dialog, any other string to create a non-modal dialog. Please note that "modal" can replace any of the other input arguments except msg (See examples).
- btn
Scalar: number of the button that the user pressed (1 is the leftmost button) for a modal dialog, 0 else.
Description
Creates a dialog window to display a message waiting or not for a user action.
Examples
// Simple example messagebox("Single line message") // Multi line message with title messagebox(["Multi-line" "message"], "User defined title") // Icon specified by th euser messagebox("An error message", "Error", "error") // Buttons labels + "modal" replaces title messagebox("Have you seen this beautiful message", "modal", "info", ["Yes" "No"]) // "modal" given as fifth input argument messagebox("An error message", "Error", "error", ["Continue" "Stop"], "modal")
Authors
Vincent COUVERT
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