Messagebox appearing at the back of form window. 2

[Mandy_crw]

i have a program that will show message after doing a task. I've used message box. The problem i am encountering is every time the messages box appears, its located at the back of my form window when timeout is put. How do i display messagebox with timeout to appear at forefront? thanks,,,,

 

[Koen Piller]

Hi,
After second thought I understand, maybe because I never 'translated' MB_TASKMODAL as "Message Box with modal task".
Stay healthy,
Koen

 

[Chris Miller]

Well, MB= Message box and task modal means modal for the current task, not modal task. Tasks are not modal, forms are modal.

Besides, the names are not our invention, these are official constant names defined by MS for Winforms.

You should know the VFP messagebox and getfile dialogs are all part of the Win32 API and could also be created with API calls, the broader topic is common dialogs.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-messagebox

There you have the constants and their meaning. I wonder why you only questioned my use of a constant, as vernspace used even more constant definitions, even without using them all...
It's really just very basic normal practice to use constant names for numbers so code makes more sense already from reading it, without needing intellisense or inspection of the parameter meanings.

Chriss

 

[Koen Piller]

Chris,
Sorry, it was not my intention to criticize you. I just wanted to know why one would prefer to use a #DEFINE for a value instead of just using the value. You and Mike made it clear to me.
Thanks for explication.
Stay healthy,
Koen