acet-ui-message (AutoLISP/Express Tools)

Displays a message box.

Supported Platforms: AutoCAD for Windows only; not available in AutoCAD LT for Windows, or on Mac OS and Web

Library: acetutil.arx

Signature

(acet-ui-message message [caption [type]])
message

Type: String

A text string containing the message to display. Multiple lines may be separated by ' ' characters.

caption

Type: String

If provided, the caption for the dialog. Defaults to "Error".

type

Type: Integer

If provided, a bitmap of various flags used to achieve different effects.

The following type flags are available:

Base types

Icons

Default buttons

  • 0 = Acet:OK
  • 1 = Acet:OKCANCEL
  • 2 = Acet:ABORTRETRYIGNORE
  • 3 = Acet:YESNOCANCEL
  • 4 = Acet:YESNO
  • 5 = Acet:RETRYCANCEL
  • 16 = Acet:ICONSTOP
  • 32 = Acet:ICONQUESTION
  • 48 = Acet:ICONWARNING
  • 64 = Acet:ICONINFORMATION
  • 0 = Acet:DEFBUTTON1
  • 256 = Acet:DEFBUTTON2
  • 512 = Acet:DEFBUTTON3
  • 768 = Acet:DEFBUTTON4

Return Values

Type: Integer

Returns one of the following values: