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Re: Length of text in MessageBox function

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From: Richard Casten
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:46
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Mark Jacobs wrote:

> So, as you can see, it is easier to do your own modal dialog form to present
> your error message. It really isn't that hard to do. Design the form and put
> your components on it. Save it in a central library directory to your app dev
> env. Then, add the CPP file to each project that is going to use the form.

I guess that's the right way to do it.  However, I was trying to do this as pure
'C' function to go into our utility library and hence wanted to only use the
Windows API.  I know it would be easy if I used the VCL.
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