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.

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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")