You've made a syntax error somewhere. Please post your code.

program WindowsApp;
Uses
Messages, Windows

Begin

<code>
function MessageDlg( const msg: string; dlgType: tMsgDlgType; buttons: tMsgDlgButtons; helpctx: longint ): word;
</code>
approach and you do NOT want any buttons (which is still a most curious concept), you would write something like:
<code>
MessageDlg('your message goes here', mtInformation,[],0);
</code>
END.

You need to read up on how to use procedures and functions.
Here's a nice tutorial.

Also, to use the MessageDlg function, you will need to put the Dialogs unit in your uses clause.

Good luck.

Im not sure about FP but I know if they are compatible as Duaos mentioned... Then simply do something like:



Again, I dont know if that will work in FP. But if you can get that to work, then great! Then goto (if you have this) object inspector and remove anything you dont want there. click on the form itself first of course and then look for the minimize and close options in there.

I am probably way off base on what you need, but I am trying anyway. lol

That would work.

You would have to create a new form, and show it to display the message, and hide it to stop displaying the message. The trick is to let the user dismiss the form, which means responding to button presses or the [X] button or "Close" option of the window menu or if the user presses ENTER or ALT+F4. To do that stuff you'd have to display the form with showmodal, which I don't think you know enough to do easily.

If you are using Free Pascal and not the GNU Pascal (the Bloodshed Dev IDE works with both), then make sure you have the Dialogs unit in your uses clause:
uses Windows, SysUtils, Dialogs, Messages;

and to display a message use:
showMessage( 'Hello world!' );
This displays a popup with the message and an OK button.

Or use:
messageDlg( 'Hello world!', mtCustom, [], 0 );
to display the dialog without buttons. (I have never tried to show one without buttons. It may or may not work. Either way, you will still be able to click the [X] button or press ESC to terminate the dialog.)

Hope this helps. (And please read-up like I asked.)

The pascal version is "Bloodshed Dev-Pascal".

bump

Also, I'm an BIG amateur on this.. I know how to do simple procedures which takes integers or char/string from the main program, make function that tells you sums of an addition or something like that and iterations, selections, types.. not more.. so this is overclass for me, but I want to learn.. also Duoas, I've read that guide before, but still don't understand the "function" in the code.. .

Most older HLLs make a distinction between a function and a procedure. One returns a value, the other does not.

In C and C++, a procedure is declared by returning void (that is, it doesn't return anything):
void my_proc()
and, of course, a function:
int my_func()

In Pascal, they are:
procedure my_proc;
and
function my_func: integer;

Here's an example:
Using this function, I can calculate any non-negative exponent that fits in an integer:
intpow( 2, 0 ) --> 1
intpow( 2, 1 ) --> 2
intpow( 2, 2 ) --> 4
intpow( 2, 3 ) --> 8
etc.

Did this help? Or did I misunderstand you?

I know that one of them returns a value (the function does that, right?) and the other does not..

*back to the topic cause I only want to do a simple popup, buttons or not I don't care.

but if you look at your examples:
should it look like this?

[code=pascal]
program popupwindow;

uses Windows, SysUtils, Dialogs, Messages;

begin
showMessage( 'Hello world!' );

end.

Is that correct? Cause it doesn't work, and I tested the second "show message" you sended.. same thing

Hmm, I knew about that (but it got complicated at the program part but I know about functions and procedures (functions gives something back and procedures don't)

Back to the thing I wanted done, a popup windows with or without buttons

I've tried the things you wrote before but can't get it to work.. should it look like this:


is that it?

Cause it won't work