HEELPBOOK - How can I open a message box in a Windows batch file? ########################

######### SCENARIO

My question is: how can I make a batch file open a popup screen?


######### METHOD 1

Something like the following saved in MessageBox.vbs (from simple .txt to .vbs):


Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments 
messageText = objArgs(0) 
MsgBox messageText 


Which you would call like:

cscript MessageBox.vbs "This will be shown in a popup."


######### METHOD 2

This way your batch file will create a VBS script and show a popup. After it runs, the batch file will delete that intermediate file.
The advantage of using MSGBOX is that it is really customazable (change the title, the icon etc).

echo MSGBOX "YOUR MESSAGE" > %temp%\TEMPmessage.vbs
call %temp%\TEMPmessage.vbs 
del %temp%\TEMPmessage.vbs /f /q


############ ARTICLE INFO #############

Article Month: October
Article Date: 19/10/2012
Permalink: http://heelpbook.altervista.org/2012/how-can-i-open-a-message-box-in-a-windows-batch-file/
Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/774175/how-can-i-open-a-message-box-in-a-windows-batch-file
Language: English

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