in reply to Re: Show a msgbox and do not wait (Win32)
in thread Show a msgbox and do not wait (Win32)

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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Re: Re: Re: Show a msgbox and do not wait (Win32)
by Cabrion (Friar) on Feb 21, 2003 at 02:13 UTC
    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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