AskItemList change "OK" button text

[stevengraff]

I'd like to put different text on the OK button, i.e. "Go to" or something like that. Couldn't see how to do that. Is it possible?

[snowsnowsnow]

There's no "straight" way to do this, and the rest of the forum folks will tell you that you need to write a (custom) dialog script to setup your own dialog.  This means, essentially, that you will be re-inventing the wheel from first principles.

However, there is a way to do it - that allows you to re-use the system-provided dialogs.  It's a little involved, but I do it all the time.  It involves launching a secondary script to change the text of the buttons of your main script.

If you are interested, post back here, and I'll see if I can dig up some code.

[Deana]

You have a number of possible options.

• aMsgTimeout in the Shell Operations Extender
• xMessageBox in the WILX Extender.
• Simple Customized WIL Dialog
• UDF Replacement for Message: http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/tsleft.web+WinBatch/UDF~-~UDS~Library/Dialog~Boxes+UDF~Replacement~for~Message.txt
• MessageBox Using Box Functions: http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/tsleft.web+WinBatch/UDF~-~UDS~Library/Dialog~Boxes+MessageBox~Using~Box~Functions.txt

[stevengraff]

Thanks; I'll have to put this off for a while. It just depends on how badly my end-users hate OK and want it to say "Go To." Maybe they won't care.  :D

[Deana]

I believe I misread the original post. I was thinking you wanted to change the name of a button on a MESSAGE box. However, now that I have had more than one cup of coffee I see you wanted to change the button name on a AskItemList.
Simply use the ButtonNames function. It changes the names of the buttons which appear in some WIL dialogs. Such as AskItemList.

Code (winbatch) Select Expand

ButtonNames("Title1", "Title2")
AskItemList("", FileItemize(Dirscript():"*.*"), @tab, @sorted, @single )

[stevengraff]

Wow!

ButtonNames("Title1", "Title2") totally did the trick, thanks! (In the simple kind of way I always expect from WinBatch, and rarely get disappointed)

[snowsnowsnow]

Wow!

ButtonNames("Title1", "Title2") totally did the trick, thanks! (In the simple kind of way I always expect from WinBatch, and rarely get disappointed)

I'm very glad that worked for you.

The problem is that ButtonNames() only works on a small subset of the WB "built-in" dialogs, and it always seemed that when I needed it, the dialog that I'm working with was not in the list.

FWIW, the list is: AskLine, AskFileText, AskItemList, AskPassword

Anyway, again, FWIW, the method that I use to change the title of any dialog button (using the Control Manager in a secondary script) is Really Cool.

[stevengraff]

Thanks Snow... much appreciated. :)