Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

This should be a fairly simple question.

I want a message box with okcancel options where ok will proceed with my program, and cancel will cancel the program and terminate the kornshell.

Code:

 
# Get input directory from user
InputDirectory=$(fileBox -D -d "Y:/job/03013rsi/edit" -t "Select translation directory")
 
#Define button return values
OK=1
Cancel=3
 
#Display Messagebox
msgbox -fb okcancel -d1 -i information jepp_change_v4_bryan.ksh "*sometext"

I was under the impression, from viewing the msksoftware website, that the button return values are printed to standard output unless otherwise specified by the use of the -q option. And that exit status values are:

0 - failed
1 - successful
2 - cancel
3 - abort
4 - retry
5 - ignore
6 - yes
7 - no

Thus, when I defined my button return values I choose Ok - 1 = successful and Cancel - 3 = abort

thanks

Bryan

The exit status is in $?

To do something with the result, you can use successive if-elif-else-fi statements, or you can use a case...esac clause.

Thanks Otheus,

After consulting the MS Toolkits Help, I've added to my original code. My new code:

Code:

#Define button return values
OK=1
Cancel=2

msgbox -fqb okcancel -d1 -i information jepp_change_v1_bryan.ksh
"some text"
case $? in
$OK) more $1 ;;
$Cancel) exit ;;
esac

Unfortunately a messagebox fails to appear when I execute my script...any thoughts?

Thanks,

Bryan