Is there any code for a nice notice box (Even a dll would be fine)
Like the one kaspersky antivirus shows? Because in my script I use a lot of
message box and the end-user start to complain that they need to click okay every time.
You can look at this exemple on CodeProject.
I suggest you create a custom control, which inherits from the message box and then you design it as per your liking.
Maybe not an actual answer to your question, but if you users complain about the number of message boxes they need to "click away" (like you mention yourself), are you perhaps using them too much or for the wrong reasons?
Perhaps other ways of showing messages are more approriate in some cases, like a status bar, a dialog with a message log, or different way of structuring dialogs/workflows in your application?
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I am currently working on a Windows Presentation Foundation app and I need to make use of Message boxes. I want to get few information from user inside Message Box popup.
But they appear always like this:
But I think the actual look of it should be like that:
Does anybody know, why this is, and how to solve it? I tried all everything listed
here
, but nothing worked.
I agree with Keithernet, build your own. Its more of an Input Dialog box. You may want to plan it to create a window, create it with ex: 4 parameters which you could override so you can apply them in the form including
The title,
The prompt you want the user to fill in
optional default button 1 text
optional default button 2 text.
have the input value stored into a public property in the window for the text to be bound to during entry.
If the user clicks the cancel button (or similar), clear the text entry and close the window. If ok button, just close the window.
Then, when you call it with a YourWindow.ShowDialog(), upon return, you can look at the public property for that input text value.
You could even do with a property / flag if the user cancelled directly or not. I have done similar in a couple of my WPF apps.
MessageBox is very limited. Based on your screenshot, you should just create your own child Window with your own XAML so you can get the user input.
You can find sample service implementations/NuGets for this on GitHub. Here is one I've created sometime ago: https://github.com/Dirkster99/MsgBox
Just create your own is an oversimplifying statement in my opinion because this is usually a dialog that you want to show in different parts of the application. Therefore, you have to settle for a software design pattern (I chose a service implementation as suggested here).
Likewise, there are other design decisions that should be taken. I have for instance made sure that the API has a compatible subset of Show API calls with the standard .Net MessageBox to make its application as flexible as possible. I also settled for light and dark themes hoping this will make its application easy in any other theme...
I'm trying to make an application that will test some features of an existing app and I wanted it not to be window-size dependent and not to require focusing the window or etc.
I've already figured out how to get window handles for different controls in the tested app so I can click buttons, enter text to textboxes etc. with Send/Post Message but still got a few unsolved problems.
The first is selecting an item from a pop-up menu that can be triggered by button click (TAdvGlowMenuButton class) or right click somewhere- I can't even see any messages related to it in Spy++ so I have no idea how to do it, is it possible to select an item by name? as I don't have it's id
The second thing is clicking next to something, for example 10 pixels to the right of a button.
I have the button handle so I can get it's size and it's parent but I still don't know how to get it's position inside the parent - any ideas?:)
And also a quick one but I don't believe it is possible - can I somehow get position of a label in the tested app? I can't even see it in Spy++ .
I hope you can help me to find it out ;)
Edit: I forgot about the most important thing:P , I'd like to achieve it with Send/Post Message if only it is possible.
My recommendation would be to abandon the message sending/posting model altogether and instead use UI Automation. Automated testing tools is exactly what the UI Automation APIs were designed for, and they are much more capable than SendMessage/PostMessage.
Yes, I realize that this is exactly the opposite of the answer you were looking for. But you will have no end of trouble getting messages to do what you want. A fair number of them rely on the application having the focus, and it is completely reasonable for your code to make this assumption when you receive e.g. a WM_KEYDOWN message. A testing tool should not flag that as a bug.
I notice you've tagged this question with the C# and .NET tags. In that case, you may be interested to learn that the UI Automation APIs have been wrapped in the .NET Framework.
I need to create a window similar to this:
a window similar to the types of dialog boxes that have been included with windows vista.
but I could not find exactly the same dialog boxes. very similar - it's Credential dialog and Input dialog. In the first case there are differences in the UI, in the second - the number of input fields and the absence of label. How can I make exactly the same window? Sorry for bad English.
You want to create a dialog exactly like the first dialog you've shown, the one used by FluffyApp?
You'll have to create it yourself, by hand. It's not a standard Windows dialog; it's a custom dialog resource provided by the FluffyApp application. It's obviously modeled to look a lot like the standard Windows authentication dialog, which is a good idea—users are already familiar with the native UI and will find your application to be much easier to use if it strongly resembles what they're already accustomed to. I recommend that if you decide to create your own custom dialog that you follow Windows's example as well.
But it's not entirely clear why you need your dialog to look exactly like the one that FluffyApp uses. I'm not really even sure why FluffyApp needed to create a custom dialog! It seems like the standard Windows authentication dialog would be perfectly sufficient. They have the same number of input fields, the UI designers at Microsoft have just replaced labels with cue banners. Not anything to worry about.
Those are standard windows dialogs, but instead of letting the dialog manager draw the text, they use DrawThemeText to draw the text, using one of the themed elements (not sure what, because you have several examples). You can play around with the various parameters to DrawThemeText to come up with something that works.
I think I want to show some kind of confirmation tick type thing by a textbox - (it's traditional windows forms stuff, not WPF) - but not sure if it's a bit naff. I would like some kind of slick way of showing that a value is incorrect or valid after some tests have been done i.e. a web service is valid with that name or SMTP server seems to running with that name etc.
Should there be even any visual stuff going on or should a simple message on a status strip at the bottom of the window be enough.....
Any ideas are most welcome.
PS - if the tick thing is a good idea what's the best way to implement this with a textbox control.
Example....
You could make a custom control which contains both a textbox and an imagebox. The custom control could raise a validation event which checks the text and then sets the imagebox graphic based on whether or not the validation passed (or sets it blank if there is not text in the textbox).
The .net centric way would probably be to implement validation providers and some type of custom error provider, like what Henrik is mentioning.
You can use ErrorProvider to show a little exclamation mark when the entered value is incorrect.
you can use the ErrorProviderComponent in order to show notifications. The naming of that component is slightly unfortunate in my mind but you can easily change the icon to show other things than the typical red error "X".
I want to display a custom info bar in my outlook message.
Something like the screenshots here:
http://www.sendshield.com/product/solution.php#
I have seen outlook form regions, and I dont think its a form region. If it is, then I am in trouble, as the only way I think to do is, and I may be wrong, is to use Replace type, in which case I have to handle al the possible scenarios for an outlook email, which I dont want to.
Any pointers in the right direction will be appreciated.
Regards,
Never mind.
Check this article. Wealth of tips, on how to accomplish this.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/office/additional_panel_Outlook.aspx
Needed some tweaks, obviously, and I was able to show my window in message window.
Thanks anyway.