messageBox(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation messageBox(3pm)
NAME
Tk::messageBox - pop up a message window and wait for user response.
SYNOPSIS
$response = $widget->messageBox(-option => value, ... );
DESCRIPTION
This method uses Tk::Dialog to quickly create several common dialog
boxes. A dialog widget consists of a message, an icon and a set of
buttons (see the -type option). After the message window is popped up,
messageBox waits for the user to select one of the buttons and return
the button text (note that it's best to check the returned value in a
case insensitive manner). NOTE: unlike Tk::Dialog which creates its
widget once and can be used many times, the messageBox window is created
every time it's used.
The following option/value pairs are supported:
-default
The case-sensitive symbolic name of the default button for this
message window ('Ok', 'Cancel' and so on). See -type for a
list of the symbolic names. If the message box has just one
button it will automatically be made the default, otherwise if
this option is not specified, there won't be any default button.
-icon
Specifies an icon to display. On X11 any of the builtin Tk bitmaps
can specified. On Windows only error, info, question or warning are
supported.
-message
Specifies the message to display.
-title
Specifies a string to display as the title.
-type
Specifies a predefined set of buttons to be displayed. The following
values are possible: 'AbortRetryIgnore', 'Ok', 'OkCancel',
'RetryCancel', 'YesNo' or 'YesNoCancel'.
EXAMPLE
$response = $mw->messageBox(-icon => 'question', -message => 'Hello
World!', -title => 'My title', -type => 'AbortRetryIgnore', -default =>
'Retry');
AUTHOR
Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU. 98/05/25
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