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You cannot (or I am not aware) do this with a message box. You have to create a custon dialog, or easiest yet... Creat a form that represents a dialog-box, with the border style as dialog... The rest should be easy... If the form should return a result, a custom dialog is best... Otherwise, a standard form should do the trick... (This is how I do it, anyway!)
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You cannot (or I am not aware) do this with a message box. You have to create a custon dialog, or easiest yet... Creat a form that represents a dialog-box, with the border style as dialog... The rest should be easy... If the form should return a result, a custom dialog is best... Otherwise, a standard form should do the trick... (This is how I do it, anyway!)

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Can you point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to do this? I want to avoid MFC and ATL and use only standard Win32 API calls.
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Can you point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to do this? I want to avoid MFC and ATL and use only standard Win32 API calls.

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I have the following unmanaged C++ code:<br />
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MessageBox( NULL, strMessage, &quot;Cool Product&quot;, MB_RETRYCANCEL | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);<br />
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I want to disable the RETRY button for 10 seconds (for example), then enable it. <br />
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How can I do this?
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I have the following unmanaged C++ code:

MessageBox( NULL, strMessage, "Cool Product", MB_RETRYCANCEL | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);

I want to disable the RETRY button for 10 seconds (for example), then enable it. 

How can I do this?

Disable, then enable the Retry Button in a MessageBox

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