messages prompt macro

[Delco]

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[Delco]

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[Delco]

Thanks , how do we change the colour of the txt box and the wording on top line ?

[DanStory]

That looks like a screenshot of a prompt from my M6 macro, I use "exec.Informplugin" directly in the C# macro.

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var status = ""; // "#" for Error, "!" for Warning title color
var button = "OK"; // "OKCancel", etc. see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.messageboxbuttons?view=windowsdesktop-7.0#fields
var title = "Title"
var message = "Message"

var result = exec.Informplugin("Messages.dll",
  string.Format("{0}{1}:{2}|{3}",
      status, button, title, messsage
  ));


[dezsoe]

I wanted to reply you before the holidays, but I had no time to finish.

The colors are fixed in the plugin. The background color of the caption is controlled by the style of the message: normal / warning / error.

The messages contain parts to control the window:

1. Show message. The string is "[*][!|#]<OK|OKCancel|YesNo|YesNoCancel>:Message" where the usual signs are: [] for optional, <> for required and | to select one of the listed parameters. "*" means that if the message is shown and reset state turns on then the message window will close. It returns cancel or no depending the window type. "!" means a warning, "#" means error, none of them is a simple message. The next part is required: you have to select the window buttons, then ":" separates the buttons from the message. The message can be one of the following: <message>|<caption|message>|[section:key]. You can write a simple message, you can set the caption and write a message or you can define a [section:key] pair to point to the current profile to read the string. The string in the profile can be in message or caption|message format. The caption is by default "Message/Warning/Error message from UCCNC" and if you set the caption then this will be replaced. You can use "[nl]" in the message to create more lines.

2. Set button number. The syntax is: "ButtonNumber:<OK,okbutton|OKCancel,okbutton,cancelbutton|YesNo,yesbutton,nobutton|YesNoCancel,yesbutton,nobutton,cancelbutton>". By default only the OK button is defined to 782 (CloseResetandQuestionForms), but you can set any button numbers. E.g. you can set input triggers to 5000 for yes and 5001 for no then call the plugin with "ButtonNumber:YesNo, 5000, 5001" to control the window from your front panel.

3. Set language: "SetLanguage:<HU|EN>". It changes the text of the buttons to English (default) or Hungarian.

Normally I use the following functions in macros to make programming more easy (copy to the end of the macro after #Events):

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// ================================================================================================ Dialogs
// Dialogs
// ================================================================================================

static string _macro_title = "UCCNC";
static string _error_msg = _macro_title + " error";

// ================================================================================================ ShowError

void ShowError(string str)
{
  ShowDialog(str, _error_msg, MessageBoxButtons.OK, "*#");
  // exec.AddStatusmessage(_error_msg + ": " + str);
}

// ================================================================================================ ShowDialog

DialogResult ShowDialog(string msg, string caption = "", MessageBoxButtons buttons = MessageBoxButtons.OK, string style = "")
{
  // style: "[*][!|#]", * for cancel if reset, ! for warning, # for error

  if (caption == "")
    caption = _macro_title;

  bool isMessagesEnabled = false;
  object returnValue = exec.Informplugin("Messages.dll", (object)null);
  if (returnValue is bool) isMessagesEnabled = (bool)returnValue;

  if (isMessagesEnabled)
      return (DialogResult)exec.Informplugin("Messages.dll",
          (object)(style + buttons.ToString() + ":" + caption + "|" + msg));
  else
      return MessageBox.Show(exec.mainform, msg, caption, buttons);
}


The ShowDialog function checks if the Messages plugin is enabled. If yes then it calls it, if not then it calls the standard C# MessageBox.