Vista Tutorial - Custom dialog boxes

Hi everyone,

I have a project that has been a work in progress over some time.
I am in the process of upgrading and improving, howver my problem concerns
the fact I need to use custom dialog boxes.

I have been using a custom IE dialog box which, to be honest I don't have a
huge understanding of, but have got working within my code.
I now need to create a custom IE dialog with dynamic content.

This dialog uses a mix of radio, check, select and text inputs.

The radio selections are within one group - 3 of them are static but more
may need to be added on the fly.
There is one checkbox that is static, a dropdown (select) which is static
and a checkbox that is static.

I know this is a fairly loose description, but could someone help me with
the required code to use and support the IE dialog box.

PS. I have a fairly good understanding of VBScript for the majority of
projects I have undertaken, but I am somewhat lacking when it comes to using
IE dialogs whith VBScript.


Many thanks, Bill.

Here's a sample that might help. You might be able
to adapt it:

www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php3#msgb

The download has a couple of versions of a VBS class
that can be pasted into a script to provide custom
dialogues that look like system dialogues.
(Screenshot here:
www.jsware.net/jsware/msggal.php3
)

Custom msgbox works well with IE5/6, but in IE7
you can't use the Fullscreen property and sizing
at the same time, which means that you can't hide
the IE border and title bar. It still works, but it looks
clunky.

As for the specifics, that's really something you
need to work out yourself. Without a specific
question there's not much anyone can do to help
short of writing the msgbox webpage for you.
You need to know HTML
and hopefully CSS if you're going to write your own
msgbox pages. It's a lot of work. If you look at the
code in the download above you'll see that getting
the window to size properly and position the
elements well is the biggest part of the code.
ausing

"Blinky" <wehxxxnospamxx@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:UxxYj.2794$IK1.142@xxxxxx-server.bigpond.net.au...I can only offer an example that might help. This uses IE to display a box
that indicates progress in a program. I use it when my script may take some
time:

http://www.rlmueller.net/IE%20Display.htm

I think it is based on work by Tom Lavedas. You can search the
microsoft.public.scripting.* newsgroups for more examples.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
--

Hi,
you also can create custom dialog boxes with Microsoft Standard Components
without using IE.

Here is a sample using VB-Script an Excel

http://www.scriptbox.at.tt/index.php...el%20Makro.vbs

"Blinky" wrote: