Customized MessageBox (dialog box) Windows Forms C#

Question

In order to try to use a dialog box instead of MessageBox I used the next code:

        static public DialogResult ShowDialog(string title, string largeHeading, string smallExplanation,
        string leftButton, string rightButton, Image iconSet)
    {
        using (BetterDialog dialog = new BetterDialog(title, largeHeading, smallExplanation, leftButton,
            rightButton, iconSet))
        {
            DialogResult result = dialog.ShowDialog();
            return result;
        }
    }

for more details, this code is found here

Then I used a button click event to call the dialog box as follows:

        private void btnDialog_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        BetterDialog dialogBox = new BetterDialog("Special Dialog", "large heading", "small explanation", null, "Ok", null);
        dialogBox.ShowDialog(this);
    }

I got the Error:

'DotNetPerls.BetterDialog' does not contain a constructor that takes 6 arguments.

What's wrong, Any idea please ?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '12 at 22:49

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I guess that the BetterDialog constructor that takes 6 arguments is private (or protected) and not public...

that means that the interface to use it is not by the constructor, but through the static methods only:

private void btnDialog_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    DialogResult result = BetterDialog.ShowDialog("Special Dialog", "large heading", "small explanation", null, "Ok", null);
    if (result == DialogResult.OK)
    {
       // Do what you want to do when OK button is pressed
    }
}

answered Jul 16 '12 at 22:49

eyossi

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Your answer is right, many thanks. I would ask another small question please: how to specify an image to show in the dialog from a directory ? – Sami-L Jul 16 '12 at 22:53
@ eyossi, have you seen my last question please ? – Sami-L Jul 16 '12 at 22:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 17 '12 at 21:12

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Add a picture box to your Form and use Image.FromFile().

edited Jul 17 '12 at 21:12

DaveShaw

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answered Jul 17 '12 at 11:56

Adi Peer

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Customized MessageBox (dialog box) Windows Forms C#

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