Enhanced messageboxes

[Silver Black 23]

From the glorious Windows Vista, a new kind of MessageBoxes were introduced, with an added description (beside the usual message, title, icon and buttons for user interactions).

I used this messagebox style in my Delphi projects thanks to a wrapper for the APIs featured from Vista and above, but now, from Delphi 10.3, with themes activated, I have a strange behavior: if the more than a button is not provided in the style parameter, I have a an empty title! If I disable themes the title is correctly displayed.

 

 

Now I was thinking of doing my own custom messagebox (just a simple customized modal form), so I can even expand its functionalities. But before I reinvent the wheel, I wonder: what do you use for your apps as messageboxes? Please don't tell me "ShowMessage"! 😁

[David Heffernan 2353]

Isn't this a VCL styles bug? Won't happen with plain windows theme. 

[Silver Black 23]

7 minutes ago, David Heffernan said:

Isn't this a VCL styles bug? Won't happen with plain windows theme. 

Yes, exactly.

I'm trying the TTaskDialog component, may this be the way to go? The only draw back is that I don't like a component on an actual form to make this, example if I have to show a message from a unit or project with no forms.

 

 

Edited February 19, 2022 by Silver Black

[David Heffernan 2353]

You don't need a component on a form

[Stano 143]

I TAdvTaskDialog from TSM

[corneliusdavid 220]

11 hours ago, Silver Black said:

I'm trying the TTaskDialog component

I use this a lot and it works well for a variety of use cases.

11 hours ago, Silver Black said:

I don't like a component on an actual form

You can create the component in code pretty easily. GExperts has a nifty tool to do this for you.

11 hours ago, Silver Black said:

example if I have to show a message from a unit or project with no forms

The TTaskDialog component can be placed on a data module; it can also be called from another unit (or form or data module) to keep your form clean.

[David Heffernan 2353]

I have my own functions that call the task dialog api rather than using the VCL component. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, David Heffernan said:

I have my own functions that call the task dialog api rather than using the VCL component. 

Oh, that is a very helpful comment! Do you have any code to show?

[Guest]

you can try this and not need use none component in your app

unit uMyTaskDialogHelper;

interface

uses
  System.UITypes,
  System.SysUtils,
  Vcl.Dialogs;

type
  TMyTaskDialogHelper = class helper for TTaskDialog
    // your definitions...
    function MyShow(ATitle: string; ACaption: string; AText: string; AButtons: TTaskDialogCommonButtons): TModalResult;
  end;

var  // global access
  TaskDialogX: TTaskDialog;

implementation

{ TMyTaskDialogHelper }

function TMyTaskDialogHelper.MyShow(ATitle: string; ACaption: string; AText: string; AButtons: TTaskDialogCommonButtons): TModalResult;
begin
  // TaskDialogX.Buttons.Clear;
  TaskDialogX.CommonButtons := AButtons;
  //
  TaskDialogX.Title   := ATitle;
  TaskDialogX.Caption := ACaption;
  TaskDialogX.Text    := AText;
  // other defintions if you want
  //
  TaskDialogX.Execute;
  result := TaskDialogX.ModalResult;
end;

initialization // executed on app-run and global usage - of course, you use another approach

TaskDialogX := TTaskDialog.Create(nil);

finalization

TaskDialogX.Free;

end.

... you use it in Any Unit

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

uses
  uMyTaskDialogHelper;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if TaskDialogX.MyShow('My title', 'My caption', 'My text', [tcbOk, tcbCancel]) = tcbOk then ...
end;

 

Edited February 20, 2022 by Guest

[Silver Black 23]

1 hour ago, joaodanet2018 said:

you can try this and not need use none component in your app

... you use it in Any Unit

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

uses
  uMyTaskDialogHelper;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if TaskDialogX.MyShow('My title', 'My caption', 'My text', [tcbOk, tcbCancel]) = 1 then ...
end;

 

TY so much, that's what I need! ❤️

[Guest]

not for that

[David Heffernan 2353]

2 hours ago, Dany Marmur said:

Oh, that is a very helpful comment! Do you have any code to show?

No. You just read the Win32 docs and off you go. 

[Silver Black 23]

Eventually I end up using this simply code, that is very straight forward, using a component created on the go that handles the taskdialog for every different Windows version hassle-free and suppports thems (and no need to use API). 

 

procedure TFromMain.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  with TTaskDialog.Create(nil) do begin
    try
      Caption       := 'Dialog Caption';
      Title         := 'Dialog Title';
      Text          := 'This is dialog text.';
      CommonButtons := [tcbClose];
      Execute;
    finally
      Free;
    end;
  end;
end;