I want to show my users some nice and friendly window, some informations and want to check some pointas when they are done so the user knows, how long it will take or where there is a problem.

I don't find any output than console window (no way!) and msg-boxes.

I would like ti use a msg-box but kix always waits for a button to click and I can not update the box.

Any other possibilites to do that?

Thx alot,
Jo

1. ie. Using OLE calls in KiX3.6x and to a lesser degree COM calls in KiX2k (COM is being fixed in KiX2k as we speak (type?)) you can launch an instance of MSie and interact with it. Have a look at a game that uses OLE and IE

2. Custom DLL plugin (made by Shawn) like KiXWin32. Have a look on Bryce's KiXtart Tools page for this and other cool DLLs to enhance KiX.

3. Other OLE/COM stuff that you make yourself or find lying around. For example, I made a program in Delphi that displays a picture and has an OK button for use as a Logo to look at while your logon script runs. Have a look here to see how this works.

hope this helps

cj

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cj's User Guide - 14 May 2001

chrismat@ozemail.com.au

[This message has been edited by cj (edited 17 June 2001).]

Welcome to the board.

By MessageBox it isn't necessary that an user must click a button.
The delay-time can influence it. F.e. by using a value of 3 seconds
the box will disappear after 3 seconds with or without an user click.

The way of changing the messages of a MessageBox are:

code:

---

$cr=CHR(13)+CHR(10)
;
$message="Hello, "+@userid+$cr+"Welcome and have a nice day."
$title="Informative"
$style=64 ; OK + Information
$delay=3
$null=MessageBox($message, $title, $style, $delay)

---

By an error situation you can change it to:

code:

---

$cr=CHR(13)+CHR(10)
;
copy s ss
$message=         "System dectect error "+@error
$message=$message+$cr+$cr+"Explanation: "+@serror
$message=$message+$cr+$cr+"Please contact your network administrator."
$title="Warning"
$style=16 ; OK + STOP
$delay=10
$null=MessageBox($message, $title, $style, $delay)

---

Greetings.

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Is ist possible to close a message box when the script is done?
So I could open one without a button, update it through the scripting process with some infos and close it, when no errors occured.

Is this possible?

Thx for your advices,
Jo

See for such a MessageBox topic
http://kixtart.org/board/Forum1/HTML/002351.html
Greetings.