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Visual Basic has built into the language a MsgBox Function and an InputBox Function:


REALbasic has built into the language a MsgBox function but not an InputBox function.

For "QuAD" ("QUick And Dirty") programs I find MsgBox in REALbasic to be extremely useful (just as I did in Visual Basic up; to version 6.0). It doesn't look "professional," but it saves a lot of time. I have an idea that I would find an InputBox in REALbasic to be equally useful, but REALbasic does not have an equivalent built into the language.

Which brings me to my questions: Has anyone written an equvalent Function to InputBox for REALbasic? If so, is the code available? (If people are converting Visual Basic programs to REALbasic, these questions must have come up before.)

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Barry Traver

P.S. I know that Dave S. wrote an InputBox equivalent for REALbasic, but I understand that it only runs on the Mac. I'm using Windows, so that won't work for me.

Barry Traver

Just make a modal dialog window with an input text field.

Make a prompt event on the window that shows the modal dialog box and returns a value.

The value returned must be a property on the window and not a control as the controls are destroyed before the return value makes it back from the method calling it.

Then you're good to go!

WindowInputDialog.prompt(Message as string, DefaultInput as string = "") return String


To use it, do something like:
Dim response as string = windowInputDialog.prompt("Enter your username:")

Let me find my code for that...

It SHOULD work for Windows..... with no problem.... I didn't use any OSX specific features.


EDIT :

I found the original code.... and since had update the MSGBOX portion ALOT... but not the INPUTBOX part (as a matter of fact it got left out of the new msgbox code)

If you want ... I will update it with INPUTBOX feature and post it again.

In the meantime.... http://www.rdsisemore.com/mymsgbox.html showed what the previous version did. Some of the custommization has been left out of the new version...

That code BTW was from Apr 2012....

I have a video in my training series on how to do this. I forget the exact video but the Tag Cloud of everything we cover in the series (36+ hours) can be found at http://www.bkeeney.com/bkeeney-tag-and-video-list/