How a messagebox can be self closed?

[Li Pang]

How to show a messagebox and close by itself?

Thanks

 

[Richard K Bethell]

How to show a messagebox and close by itself?

You pretty much can't, not with the messageBox proper.

However, you could design and call your own form that does it. Set up a
timer control on your form, and unload and destroy the form when the timer
has fired...

R.

 

[Cor]

Hi Li Pang,

Use a dialogbox (form) with at timer is my first thought

Cor

 

[Chris Dunaway]

How to show a messagebox and close by itself?

Thanks

I'm not sure if the built in messagebox can be self closed, but you could
create a very simple form class that mimics the messagebox. Incorporate a
timer in the class and when an appropriate amount of time has passed, close
the form.

 

[Brian Henry]

what ever happened to the messagebox time out properties? the use to be in
other languages MS put out.. you could set like a 30 second time out then it
would close after that... i know foxpro still has it in..

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How to show a messagebox and close by itself?

There is no built-in way to do that, but it can be done with p/invoke.
You will find a VB6 sample here:

<http://www.mvps.org/vb/code/TimedMsg.zip>