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title of a box (e.g. alert box)

hi,

how can i set the title of a popup box e.g. an alert box.
now, the text "microsoft internet explorer" is displayed.

additionally id'd like to know if i can change the icon being displayed. now a "!" is displayed.


thanks
hreinart
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You can't.

You can use window.ShowModalDialog to open up a small web page in a dialog window. This will work just like an alert, but you can do most things that you can do in a normal window. A bit tricker to work with, though...
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hi ramses,

this looks very nice.
if i put the messagebox into my page, i only see the text.

could you give me the source for 1 simple page just displaying this box?


thanks
hreinart
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I will... hold on


BTW: if you use Netscape it's possible you get the Javascript alertbox

(depends on wich version)


Hold on a few minutes while i look for the source
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Here you go!

Just copy and paste it into a html file, open it in your browser and press the Click Me button.

In MSIE you'll see the enhanced msgboxes and in NS you see the standard msgboxes

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--

IE4 = document.all;

function newAlert(title,mess,icon,mods) {
   (IE4) ? makeMsgBox(title,mess,icon,0,0,mods) : alert(mess);
}

function newConfirm(title,mess,icon,defbut,mods) {
   if (IE4) {
      icon = (icon==0) ? 0 : 2;
      defbut = (defbut==0) ? 0 : 1;
      retVal = makeMsgBox(title,mess,icon,4,defbut,mods);
      retVal = (retVal==6);
   }
   else {
      retVal = confirm(mess);
   }
   return retVal;
}

function IEBox(title,mess,icon,buts,defbut,mods) {
   retVal = (IE4) ? makeMsgBox(title,mess,icon,buts,defbut,mods) : null;
   return retVal;
}
function newConfirm(title,mess,icon,defbut,mods) {
   if (IE4) {
      icon = (icon==0) ? 0 : 2;
      defbut = (defbut==0) ? 0 : 1;
      retVal = makeMsgBox(title,mess,icon,4,defbut,mods);
      retVal = (retVal==6);
   }
   else {
      retVal = confirm(mess);
   }
   return retVal;
}

//-->
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript TYPE="text/vbscript">
<!--

Function makeMsgBox(title,mess,icon,buts,defbut,mods)
   butVal = buts + (icon*16) + (defbut*256) + (mods*4096)
   makeMsgBox = MsgBox(mess,butVal,title)
End Function

Function makeInputBox(title,pr,def)
   makeInputBox = InputBox(pr,title,def)
End Function

-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<BUTTON ONCLICK="newConfirm('Question','Wanna continue?',2,1,0)">Click me</BUTTON>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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i'm using ie5

..will look on your code now...
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ok
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hi,

i see the messagebox.
the title is:

vbscript:question


how can i change this?
..e,g,. "this is my messagebox"
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You can change the "Question", but not the Vbscript:

To change the "Question" caption, just alter the code that gets fired when you click the Click me button

<BUTTON ONCLICK="newConfirm('This is my Msgbox','Wanna continue?',2,1,0)">Click me</BUTTON>

with the functions listed above in your <head> section


If you want to be able to use msgboxes without the VBScript prefix, you'll have to use a custom OCX

I can make this very fast if you will, but then your users will have to accept a security warning.  The advantage is then that it will work cross-browser, i mean both NS and MSIE users will have the msgboxes


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Hi there

I've made the ocx for you!

Just look at http://www.vep.be/msgbox/ and you'll see!


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works fine, sorry for beeing late here !
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Your responsiveness here is very much appreciated.
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