timeout on MessageBox()

[HenrikFogh]

Hi,

Is there a simple way to make the MessageBox dialog to timeout.
My application can't allow the user to hang the program in this manner.

Thanks,
HenrikFogh

 

[Ginny Caughey [MVP]]

Henrik,

You can create your own dialog that provides more or less the functionality
of a MessageBox, but since you want the dialog to disappear after a timeout
value, I wonder if this is really the best approach. I'm assuming that you
want to display a message until the user reads it, right? Maybe using a
multiline textbox on the form to display status messages would work better.

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

Another option would be to use the bubble notification API (Pocket PC 2002
and above) which does support dismissing a message after a specified timeout
see OpenNETCF.Notification library for a managed implementation
(www.opennetcf.org/library/)

Peter

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[Daniel Moth]

As suggested either write your own custom messagebox that times out OR run a
threading timer before showing the msgbox and when it fires close the msgbox
programmatically...

Doing your own basic time out dialog is really simple but if you are stuck
let me know as I have one somewhere... For closing a msgbox from code see
this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...soft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

Cheers
Daniel