MsgBox

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MsgBox

Description

Displays a message in a dialog box and waits for the user to click the OK or Cancel button.
Click the OK button to continue script processing. Click the Cancel button to cancel the script.

Syntax

MsgBox(prompt[[, icon][, title]])

or
MsgBox prompt[[, icon][, title]]

Parameters

Part

Type

Description

prompt

String

String expression displayed as the message in the dialog box. The maximum length of prompt is approximately 1024 characters, depending on the width of the characters used. If prompt consists of more than one line, you can separate the lines using a carriage return character (Chr(13)), a linefeed character (Chr(10)), or carriage return–linefeed character combination (Chr(13) & Chr(10)) between each line. You can even use the system defined constants like vbCR, vbLf, vbCrLf…

icon

String

Optional. Message box icon id. ICONEXCLAMATION is the default

title

String

Optional. String expression displayed in the title bar of the dialog box. If you omit title, the application name is displayed in the title bar.

MsgBox Constants

The following constants are used with the MsgBox function to identify what icon is displayed.
 

Constant

Description

ICONNONE

No icon is displayed.

ICONSTOP

Display Stop (white X in a circle with a red background.) icon.

ICONQUESTION

Display Warning Query icon.

ICONEXCLAMATION

Display Warning Message icon.

ICONINFORMATION

Display Information Message icon.