Hello DaniWeb. I'm new to this site and will just have to say some words before asking my question. I'm Loyen and I am 14 years old and lives in Sweden. I've just started on an upper secondary school about IT and there I'm going one class that's called "programming" there we're learning the basics in Pascal.

Now, I'm really interested in this, and just wanted to know, how do I do a basic popup window that just gives you a message? Can I make one that has no buttons just a clean window without any "minimazers, closers" and all?

Write it here.

Thank you all for your time and hopefully somebody knows how to do a basic popup window.

//Loyen

Loyen,

Are you using Delphi for this class?

If so, there are several ways to go about doing this, although I would suggest having at least an "OK" button for closing the pop-up window.

One approach, in Delphi, would be to use a MessageDlg.


A question for you to consider is, if you create a pop-up window
, how do you plan to close the window and exit the program?

I didn't plan to close it. ^^
through taskbar if I wanted some time though.

No, we don't use delphi. We are just using Pascal. :/

Which Pascal are you using?

Regrettably, it has been far too many years since I worked in base-level Pascal. Sorry.

Also, it really depends on the implimentation of Pascal (i.e. the compiler) with which you are working.

I work with the free Pascal version. (1.9.2)

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.)