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a "tiny utility" that would call the MessageBoxA() Win32 API function with the caption and message I give it?

See rundll32.exe to do that. Is a "standard" MS app and you can find details on it's use on their web site.

Another method would be to create a "regular" window (i.e. not a dialog) that does what you want. In VB you just show a form with a label & and OK button in it, and set the label's value to your string. You can set various properties of the form at design time to simulate a dialog box. Change your compile settings to start the app with a "main" function instead of a form. Otherwise, the application will just exit when the form is dismissed. Sorry, I don't do GUI programming with perl, so i can't give you a perl-centric answer.

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Re: Re: Show a msgbox and do not wait (Win32)
by Jenda (Abbot) on Feb 19, 2003 at 15:30 UTC

    Thanks for the ideas. I forgot about rundll32, thanks. It wount work though anyway. Rundll32 supports only functions with prototype 

    void CALLBACK
  EntryPoint(HWND hwnd, HINSTANCE hinst, LPSTR lpszCmdLine, int nCmdSh
+ow);

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    and MessageBoxA is too different.

    I've tried the VB way, with Sub Main and MsgBox function, but the resulting EXE wasted about 4MB of memory when run.

    Jenda

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      Code it in Delphi to avoid the large overhead. It's way better than VB anyway.

      However, you might also consider exploring windows scripting host.

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        I'd have to stea^B^B^B^Bbuy it first ;-) I plan to look into Delphi for five years already. I always liked the Pascal style syntax better than C style. Though maybe now that I've got used to curlies .... I don't think I'll ever have the time/need to though :-( Besides, my employer want's us to use C# :-{

        I don't think the result would be smaller (not the EXE, the memory footprint!) than BrowserUk's popup.exe anyway.

        Thanks, Jenda

        P.S.: Another languages I'd like to play a little with are Dylan and Erlang. I think especialy Erlang could be a good tool to have in ones toolset.

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