Custom button in Message box

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1 
[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show('Review Outstanding Timesheet', 'Urgent', 'Yesno')

Not to sure this is strictly a PS question, the above is working fine but i would like to customise the buttons to read

Complete

Ignore

not sure if there is a simple option or even a hard one as never really messed with windowsforms

Help :slight_smile:

2

Nope. You’d have to build a new form completely from scratch.

3

Thanks Don, managed to get this from a MS demo and customise

 

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing

$form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form

$form.Text = 'Timesheet reminder'

$form.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,200)

$form.StartPosition = 'CenterScreen'

$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button

$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(75,120)

$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)

$OKButton.Text = 'Review'

$OKButton.DialogResult = [System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::OK

$form.AcceptButton = $OKButton

$form.Controls.Add($OKButton)

$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button

$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(150,120)

$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)

$CancelButton.Text = 'Ignore'

$CancelButton.DialogResult = [System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::Cancel

$form.CancelButton = $CancelButton

$form.Controls.Add($CancelButton)

$label = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label

$label.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10,20)

$label.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,50)

$label.Text = "'Please would you complete your timesheet(s) to enable the timely recognition of costs on our projects and the billing of these to clients, if applicable.

"

$form.Controls.Add($label)

$form.Topmost = $true


$result = $form.ShowDialog()

if ($result -eq [System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::OK)

{

Write-Host = "review"

}

Else

{

Write-Host = "Ignore"

}

 

 

awaiting telling off for WH command :), just for demo purpose so its ok

4

A different thought using ComObject.

$r = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell
$r.Popup('Title',5,'Message',6)

# 5 --> is the timeout for showing the popup
# 6 --> CancelContinueTryAgain , Cancel and Continue can be used here.
5

^ nice, how would i customise the text in the buttons however ?

6

I would echo Don’s reply.

7

FYI, if you start messing with PS with GUI. You don’t have to do this from scratch.

Use these resources:

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AnyBox/0.3.0

https://www.donaldmellenbruch.com/post/introducing-the-anybox


 

https://poshgui.com
 
Visual Studio Community Edition

https://foxdeploy.com/series/learning-gui-toolmaking-series

 


The above are freely available, or you can get this, but it’s not free:

https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio
 
8

Thanks all, ive created quite a few apps with Sapien, its a great tool and take sthe hard work of creating the forms out of the equation, great for speed but bad for learning :slight_smile:

this needed to be ran as a scheduled task and pop the box up on screen.