messageBox(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     messageBox(3)

NAME

       messageBox  -  pop up a message window and wait for user response.

SYNOPSIS

	   $response = $widget->messageBox(-option => value, ... );

DESCRIPTION

       This method uses Tk::Dialog to quickly create several common dialog boxes. A dialog widget consists of a message, an icon and a set of
       buttons (see the -type option). After the message window is popped up, messageBox waits for the user to select one of the buttons and
       return the button text (note that it's best to check the returned value in a case insensitive manner). NOTE: unlike Tk::Dialog which
       creates its widget once and can be used many times, the messageBox window is created every time it's used.

       The following option/value pairs are supported:

       -default
	   The case-sensitive symbolic name of the default button for this message window  ('Ok',  'Cancel'  and  so on).  See	-type  for a list
	   of the symbolic names.  If the message box has  just  one  button  it  will automatically  be  made	the  default, otherwise if this
	   option is not specified, there  won't  be  any default button.

       -icon
	   Specifies an icon to display. On X11 any of the builtin Tk bitmaps can specified. On Windows only error, info, question or warning are
	   supported.

       -message
	   Specifies the message to display.

       -title
	   Specifies  a  string to display as the title.

       -type
	   Specifies a predefined set of buttons to be displayed. The following values are possible: 'AbortRetryIgnore', 'Ok', 'OkCancel',
	   'RetryCancel', 'YesNo' or 'YesNoCancel'.

EXAMPLE

       $response = $mw->messageBox(-icon => 'question', -message => 'Hello World!', -title => 'My title', -type => 'AbortRetryIgnore', -default =>
       'Retry');

AUTHOR

       Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU.  98/05/25

perl v5.12.1							    2007-05-05							     messageBox(3)