// 7 february 2014 package ui import ( "fmt" "os" "syscall" "unsafe" ) // TODO change what the default window titles are? var ( _messageBox = user32.NewProc("MessageBoxW") ) func _msgBox(primarytext string, secondarytext string, uType uint32) (result int) { // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511267.aspx says "Use task dialogs whenever appropriate to achieve a consistent look and layout. Task dialogs require Windows Vista® or later, so they aren't suitable for earlier versions of Windows. If you must use a message box, separate the main instruction from the supplemental instruction with two line breaks." text := primarytext if secondarytext != "" { text += "\n\n" + secondarytext } uType |= _MB_TASKMODAL // make modal to every window in the program (they're all windows of the uitask, which is a single thread) ret := make(chan uiret) defer close(ret) uitask <- &uimsg{ call: _messageBox, p: []uintptr{ uintptr(_NULL), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr(text))), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr(os.Args[0]))), uintptr(uType), }, ret: ret, } r := <-ret if r.ret == 0 { // failure panic(fmt.Sprintf("error displaying message box to user: %v\nstyle: 0x%08X\ntitle: %q\ntext:\n%s", r.err, uType, os.Args[0], text)) } return int(r.ret) } func msgBox(primarytext string, secondarytext string) { _msgBox(primarytext, secondarytext, _MB_OK) } func msgBoxError(primarytext string, secondarytext string) { _msgBox(primarytext, secondarytext, _MB_OK | _MB_ICONERROR) }