SQL Server. Sign in. United States English. Home R2 Library Forums. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Friday, October 30, PM. Thank you for your reply. I've thought about scripting, but I'm not a fan of 'waiting an expected amount of time' since that always turns out either being way too long or too short.
This message waits forever until OK is clicked it lasts only one minute by default and works fine in Windows 8. In order to do this, you need to have a small program that displays a messagebox and run that from your batch file. You could open a console window that displays a prompt though, but getting a GUI message box using cmd. I use a utility named msgbox. You can use Zenity. Zenity allows for the execution of dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts.
More info can also be found on Wikipedia. It is cross-platform: a Windows installer for Windows can be found here. Following on Fowl's answer, you can improve it with a timeout to only appear for 10 seconds using the following:.
This application can do that, if you convert wrap your batch files into executable files. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 12 years, 8 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed k times. It's called Windows Command Prompt.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Joey Joey k 80 80 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Funny, though, you're right about the Messenger service. It doesn't even exist on my XP VM, but net send still exists. I thought a viable option was missing from the answers and provided it. Nothing wrong here. Neither do you need to feel forced to do something nor am I somehow saying that boflynn's wrong. I was just adding another option which should be perfectly fine for questions that do not have a single definitive answer.
Furthermore, you're probably not the only one with this question and others may not want to use VBScript for whichever reasons. This is a community site, not solely yours :- — Joey. I for myself just used this to spawn an "I love you" message on my girlfriend's PC from a remote shell. On Windows 8 and 10 I've found the version of Windows matters. For me it works on pro but not home.
Others have reported it works on Home Premium and Enterprise, Ultimate etc.. Show 9 more comments. Something like the following saved in MessageBox.
Cristian Ciupitu Great answer. This way you can have total control over icons, buttons, and box title. Also when you save your file somewhere along PATH you call it from any location. I created few files for alerts with different icons. I didn't have cscript. I used start instead. Any way to do this filelessly?
Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Fowl Fowl 4, 2 2 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. This works perfectly from the command prompt, but when I stick it in a batch file, I get this error: close was unexpected at this time. It worked perfectly for me from a batch file I'm on Windows 7 Can we run any Javascript this way? How would we return values to the batch file? Here are some amazing examples of things you can do: dostips.
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