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Message and Query Dialog Boxes

Two new functions have been added to let you display a message box or a yes/no query box from within MAXScript. The functions are:

messageBox <message_string> [title:<window_title_string>]

                          [beep:<boolean>]

displays a modal message box containing the message string and an OK button. The message box window title an be set with the title: keyword param. You can control whether a beep is made with the beep: keyword param which defaults to true.

queryBox <message_string> [title:<window_title_string>]

                          [beep:<boolean>]

displays a modal message box similar to the one that the messageBox() function creates, except it contains a Yes and a No button. The queryBox() function returns true if the user clicks Yes and false if the user clicks No.

Examples:

messageBox "You shouldn't have done that"

if queryBox "Do you want to continue?" beep:no then ...