MessageRequester Return Values

[C87]

Needing the numeric return values for MessageRequester() I was unable to locate them in HELP or online.
( no result for a search in Titles for MessageRequester Return Values or MessageRequester Variables )

Below I list out the return values that someone new to PureB may find helpful.

#PB_MessageRequester_Yes
gives the buttons: [Cancel] [Try Again] [Continue] and the return values 2, 10 & 11

#PB_MessageRequester_YesNoCancel
Gives the buttons : [Yes] [No] [Cancel] and the return values 6,7 & 2

#PB_MessageRequester_YesNo
Gives the buttons: [Yes] [No] and the return values 6 & 7

#PB_MessageRequester_Cancel
Gives the buttons: [Abort] [Retry] [Ignore] and the return values 3, 4 & 5

Button Value
Clicked Returned
~~~~ ~~~~~~
[Cancel]    = 2
[Abort ] =   3
[Retry ] =   4
[Ignore] =   5
[Yes ]  =     6
[No ]  =  7
[Try Again]  = 10
[Continue]   = 11

[mk-soft]

Here are the valid calls of MessageRequester.

The call from the requester with the flag #PB_MessageRequester_Yes is not valid and leads only randomly to a result.

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Procedure.s MsgResult(Result)
  Protected r1.s
  Select Result
    Case #PB_MessageRequester_Yes    : r1 = "the 'yes' button was pressed"
    Case #PB_MessageRequester_No     : r1 = "the 'no' button was pressed"
    Case #PB_MessageRequester_Cancel : r1 = "the 'Cancel' button was pressed"
    Case #IDRETRY : r1 = "the 'retry' button was pressed"
    Case #IDABORT : r1 = "the 'abort' button was pressed"
    Case #IDIGNORE : r1 = "the 'ignore' button was pressed"
      
    Default
      r1 = "the Result " + Result + " button was pressed"
  EndSelect
  ProcedureReturn r1
EndProcedure

; msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions Ok", #PB_MessageRequester_Ok)
; Debug MsgResult(msg)
; 
; msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions YesNo", #PB_MessageRequester_YesNo)
; Debug MsgResult(msg)
; msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions YesNo", #PB_MessageRequester_YesNo)
; Debug MsgResult(msg)
; 
; msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions YesNoCancel", #PB_MessageRequester_YesNoCancel)
; Debug MsgResult(msg)
; msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions YesNoCancel", #PB_MessageRequester_YesNoCancel)
; Debug MsgResult(msg)
; msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions YesNoCancel", #PB_MessageRequester_YesNoCancel)
; Debug MsgResult(msg)

; Only Windows
msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions RetryCancel", #MB_RETRYCANCEL)
Debug MsgResult(msg)

msg = MessageRequester("Info", "Questions AbortRetryIgnore", #MB_ABORTRETRYIGNORE)
Debug MsgResult(msg)

[C87]

The call from the requester with the flag #PB_MessageRequester_Yes is not valid and leads only randomly to a result.

• #PB_MessageRequester_Yes
  I found to be consistent in its return values in all the tests I made, with Cancel=2, Try Again=10 and Continue=11.
  
  Your comprehensive expansion using PureB variables may well be the preferred syntax but personally I prefer the numeric return variables. Particularly as they are in general, standard and use less code. Additionally, from 2=Cancel through to 7=No, those numbers seem fairly universal in other languages. Probably the [Yes], [No] is the most commonly used and I just find it so easy to just If/EndIf for <Yes>, 6 after the MessageRequester(). Plus it is what I've done for years with Message Prompt Return PopUps, hence my original post.

[Marc56us]

And since the beginning, there has always been a constant missing for the exclamation point ( ? = 32) but the numerical value works

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MessageRequester("", Str(#PB_MessageRequester_Error),    #PB_MessageRequester_Error)
MessageRequester("", "The 32 is missing. (The question mark) but numeric value works", 32)
MessageRequester("", Str(#PB_MessageRequester_Warning),  #PB_MessageRequester_Warning)
MessageRequester("", Str(#PB_MessageRequester_Info),     #PB_MessageRequester_Info)

MessageRequester("", "No icon for ?", #PB_MessageRequester_YesNo)

[ozzie]

For question mark (?) you can use the constant #MB_ICONQUESTION.

[infratec]

... PureB variables may well be the preferred syntax but personally I prefer the numeric return variables. Particularly as they are in general, standard and use less code. Additionally, from 2=Cancel through to 7=No, those numbers seem fairly universal in other languages.

Are your values also standard in Linux and OSX

Using PB constants is always the better way.

[mk-soft]

This also applies to Windows constants declared in PB. It can also change sometimes something and then you look for a wolf to find the error.
Except that the code doesn't get bigger when using constants, but only the code will read better than just any numbers.
That's what constants are meant for...

But everyone should do as he wants

[C87]

infratec asked:Are your values also standard in Linux and OSX

Ah, infratec got me there!.....I'm a Microsoft only guy, since 1983 actually.From MS-DOS to Windows with some CP/M & MP/M along the way.

Once tried Linux Mint but unimpressed & never owned, or even used an Apple computer or phone.