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Original Post

Oct 20, 2000 at 7:07 PM

I was making an annoying programm where you have to press ok(on a MessageBox) for a 1000 times. If you press cancel it makes you do twise as much. If you press cancel 5 times it goes to a black screen where the mouse and close is disabled. I want to make a couter(in the title bar) that tells you what box your on. I tried this: for(int i =1000;i > 0; i--) { HRESULT hr = MesaageBox(NULL, "You can''t exit for a thousnad MessageBoxes", "%d Boxes", i, MB_OKCANCEL |MB_ICONSTOP); That didn''t work so can i do anything for this to work. Felisandria is Hot, So is Jewelaye

SiCrane

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SiCrane

Oct 20, 2000 at 7:27 PM

You need to create the string to be fed as the title before the call to MessageBox. Most functions won''t accept the C style format specifiers.


char buffer[256];
for (int i = 1000; i > 0; i--) {
  sprintf(buffer, "%d boxes", i);
  HRESULT hr = MessageBox(NULL, "blah", buffer, MB_OKCANCEL | MB_ICONSTOP);
}

Pouya

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Pouya

Oct 20, 2000 at 9:23 PM

woaaa! SiCrane started talking again...

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