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Reputation: 445

Display a Variable in MessageBox c++

How to display a Variable in MessageBox c++ ?

string name = "stackoverflow";

MessageBox(hWnd, "name is: <string name here?>", "Msg title", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION);

I want to show it in the following way (#1):

"name is: stackoverflow"

and this?

int id = '3';

MessageBox(hWnd, "id is: <int id here?>", "Msg title", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION);

and I want to show it in the following way (#2):

id is: 3

how to do this with c++ ?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 89490

Answers (5)

MSalters
MSalters

Reputation: 180145

It's not good to see people still messing with buffers. That was unnecessary in 1998, and definitely today.

std::string name = "stackoverflow";

MessageBox(hWnd, ("name is: "+name).c_str(), "Msg title", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION);

If you're using Unicode (which makes sense in the 21st century)

std::wstring name = L"stackoverflow";

MessageBox(hWnd, (L"name is: "+name).c_str(), L"Msg title", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION);

Upvotes: 1

Gibby
Gibby

Reputation: 458

Create a temporary buffer to store your string in and use sprintf, change the formatting depending on your variable type. For your first example the following should work:

 char buff[100];
 string name = "stackoverflow";
 sprintf_s(buff, "name is:%s", name.c_str());
 cout << buff;

Then call message box with buff as the string argument

MessageBox(hWnd, buff, "Msg title", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION);

for an int change to:

int d = 3;
sprintf_s(buff, "name is:%d",d);

Upvotes: 10

Gilles Walther
Gilles Walther

Reputation: 136

This is the only one that worked for me:

std::string myString = "x = ";
int width = 1024;
myString += std::to_string(width);

LPWSTR ws = new wchar_t[myString.size() + 1];
copy(myString.begin(), myString.end(), ws);
ws[myString.size()] = 0; // zero at the end

MessageBox(NULL, ws, L"Windows Tutorial", MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK);

Upvotes: 1

cup
cup

Reputation: 8289

This can be done with a macro

#define MSGBOX(x) \
{ \
   std::ostringstream oss; \
   oss << x; \
   MessageBox(oss.str().c_str(), "Msg Title", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION); \
}

To use

string x = "fred";
int d = 3;
MSGBOX("In its simplest form");
MSGBOX("String x is " << x);
MSGBOX("Number value is " << d);

Alternatively, you can use varargs (the old fashioned way: not the C++11 way which I haven't got the hang of yet)

void MsgBox(const char* str, ...)
{
    va_list vl;
    va_start(vl, str);
    char buff[1024];  // May need to be bigger
    vsprintf(buff, str, vl);
    MessageBox(buff, "MsgTitle", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION);
}
string x = "fred";
int d = 3;
MsgBox("In its simplest form");
MsgBox("String x is %s", x.c_str());
MsgBox("Number value is %d", d);

Upvotes: 3

user3148898
user3148898

Reputation: 135

Answer to your question:

string name = 'stackoverflow';

MessageBox("name is: "+name , "Msg title", MB_OK | MB_ICONQUESTION);

do in same way for others.

Upvotes: 0

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