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Loop
' Close file
Close #FileNo
Msgbox Msg
Files and Directories
The individual lines are retrieved in a Do While loop, saved in the Msg variable, and displayed at the end in a
message box.
Message and Input Boxes
OpenOffice.org Basic provides the MsgBox and InputBox functions for basic user communication.
Displaying Messages
MsgBox displays a basic information box, which can have one or more buttons. In its simplest variant the MsgBox
only contains text and an OK button:
MsgBox "This is a piece of information!"
The appearance of the information box can be changed using a parameter. The parameter provides the option of
adding additional buttons, defining the pre-assigned button, and adding an information symbol.
Note – By convention, the symbolic names given below are written in UPPERCASE, to mark them as
predefined, rather than user-defined. However, the names are not case-sensitive.
The values for selecting the buttons are:
0, MB_OK - OK button
1, MB_OKCANCEL - OK and Cancel button
2, MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE - Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons
3, MB_YESNOCANCEL - Yes, No, and Cancel buttons
4, MB_YESNO - Yes and No buttons
5, MB_RETRYCANCEL - Retry and Cancel buttons
To set a button as the default button, add one of the following values to the parameter value from the list of
button selections. For example, to create Yes, No and Cancel buttons (value 3) where Cancel is the default (value
512), the parameter value is 3 + 512 = 515. The expression MB_YESNOCANCEL + MB_DEFBUTTON3 is harder to
write, but easier to understand.
0, MB_DEFBUTTON1 - First button is default value
256, MB_DEFBUTTON2 - Second button is default value
512, MB_DEFBUTTON3 - Third button is default value
Finally, the following information symbols are available and can also be displayed by adding the relevant
parameter values:
16, MB_ICONSTOP - Stop sign
32, MB_ICONQUESTION - Question mark
48, MB_ICONEXCLAMATION - Exclamation point
64, MB_ICONINFORMATION - Tip icon
The following call displays an information box with the Yes and No buttons (value 4), of which the second
button (No) is set as the default value (value 256) and which also receives a question mark (value 32),
4+256+32=292.
MsgBox "Do you want to continue?", 292
' or,
MsgBox "Do you want to continue?", MB_YESNO + MB_DEFBUTTON2 + MB_ICONQUESTION
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