Message Box with Custom Buttons - Powershell

[Avi_R]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to get a MessageBox to pop up in powershell, but instead of the default windows buttons, I wanted to know if i can change the buttons, and depends on what the user clicks, that value must be loaded into a variable.

eg.

[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("Which planet do we want to visit today?" , "Status" , 4)

this will bring up a message box with yes or no. I wan the button to say mars or venus.

Thank you guys in advance for any assistance.

 

[Zeedinstein]

So to place the result into a variable is quite easy it seems

$msgBoxInput =  [System.Windows.MessageBox]::Show('Would you like to play a game?','Game  input','YesNoCancel','Error')

switch  ($msgBoxInput) {

  'Yes' {

  ## Do something

  }

  'No' {

  ## Do something

  }

  'Cancel' {

  ## Do something

  }

  }

Now for changing the text of the button, I assume you would need to target the buttons class and run a setText kind of function.

Are you able to target the buttons?

I'm not really a powershell dev

 

[Zeedinstein]

Have a look at this link The MessageBox Control

It says there is a MessageBoxButtons Object that you can create to customise the Buttons. You then just pass this to your MessageBox show method like such:

[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show('text', 'title', MessageBoxButtons)

Let me know if this helps

 

[Zeedinstein]

This link explains it well on how exactly to create the buttons etc...
Creating a Custom Input Box

Wait sorry this is for a normal Form but should help understand the process

 

[Avi_R]

@Zeedinstein Thanks for the links bro. I see there are core classes that you can edit to get custom button titles. Unfortunately I don't have the time to go edit the classes. So i went the poor devs route and created an inline console menu

But those links are rather interesting. Will give it a shout. The code i am writing is for auto site fail over for a rather technical client so GUI's are optional lol.

 

[Zeedinstein]

Always nice when Client have technical ability haha!