// 7 february 2014 package ui import ( "fmt" "os" ) var ( _messageBox = user32.NewProc("MessageBoxW") ) var dialogResponses = map[uintptr]Response{ _IDOK: OK, } func _msgBox(parent *Window, primarytext string, secondarytext string, uType uint32) Response { // 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 } ptext := toUTF16(text) ptitle := toUTF16(os.Args[0]) parenthwnd := _HWND(_NULL) if parent != dialogWindow { parenthwnd = parent.sysData.hwnd uType |= _MB_APPLMODAL // only for this window } else { uType |= _MB_TASKMODAL // make modal to every window in the program (they're all windows of the uitask, which is a single thread) } r1, _, err := _messageBox.Call( uintptr(parenthwnd), utf16ToArg(ptext), utf16ToArg(ptitle), uintptr(uType)) if r1 == 0 { // failure panic(fmt.Sprintf("error displaying message box to user: %v\nstyle: 0x%08X\ntitle: %q\ntext:\n%s", err, uType, os.Args[0], text)) } return dialogResponses[r1] } func (w *Window) msgBox(primarytext string, secondarytext string) { _msgBox(w, primarytext, secondarytext, _MB_OK) } func (w *Window) msgBoxError(primarytext string, secondarytext string) { _msgBox(w, primarytext, secondarytext, _MB_OK|_MB_ICONERROR) }