Question

Good afternoon chaps..

I’m trying to create a function in Javascript that generates an on screen dialog similar to the msgbox function in VB/VBA. I’ve so far managed to code the msgbox function in Javascript so that when it is called it dynamically creates a dialog on screen.

It works like this:-

if (msgbox("Do you want to continue", YesNo) == Yes) {
      //Do something here
}

What I would like to know is this – is there any way I can halt/pause the flow in code until one of the buttons in my dynamically generated dialog is pressed? I don’t want the ‘Do Something here’ bit or any other following code to run until a user has clicked the ‘Yes’ button in my dialog.

(NOTE: YesNo and Yes, in the example above are constants. The dialog works perfectly up to this point I just need to figure how to stop flow until a button is pressed without overcomplicating things).

Mat

Answer 1

If you use the confirm box this should work for you – it fires a prompt with ok/cancel options:

    if (confirm("Are you sure you wish to continue?")){
//executed when OK clicked
}
else{
//executed when CANCEL clicked
}

Note workflow is paused in the function until an answer is given