Messagebox - strange problem

[Marc Jennings]

Apologies if this is not the right group to ask this in, but I cannot
think where else it might fit!

I have a strange problem when I create an app that uses the a message
box.

When the box appears, it displays as I want it to, except that the
message text and button text do not show up. I've tried changing the
font in the desktop customisation thingummy, but to no avail.

The application, when built, runs perfectly on other machines with the
same version of the framework installed, but not on this one.

Does anyone know which dll is responsible for drawing the messagebox
(that might be the culprit), or have any other suggestions on how to
trace the fault?

Thanks in advance.
Marc.

[Ansil MCAD]

hi,
the assemblies needed to run messagebox are
mscorlib
System.Windows.Forms

regards
ansil

"Marc Jennings" wrote:

Apologies if this is not the right group to ask this in, but I cannot
think where else it might fit!

I have a strange problem when I create an app that uses the a message
box.

When the box appears, it displays as I want it to, except that the
message text and button text do not show up. I've tried changing the
font in the desktop customisation thingummy, but to no avail.

The application, when built, runs perfectly on other machines with the
same version of the framework installed, but not on this one.

Does anyone know which dll is responsible for drawing the messagebox
(that might be the culprit), or have any other suggestions on how to
trace the fault?

Thanks in advance.
Marc.

[Marc Jennings]

Thanks Ansii,

It looks like the problem might be outside the framework, then. I
have compared the files against a known-good system, and they seem to
be the same (at least they match in terms of number of bytes)

I'm none the wiser, but I suppose it could be a corrupt font on this
system - unlikely, but possible.

**UPDATE** - I made an exe that just displays a messagebox on a
working system, and ran it from tyhis box. Same problem. At least I
know it is not a problem in the app build process.

*sigh* - I might have tio re-build :-(

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:03:03 -0700, "Ansil MCAD"
<An*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

hi,
the assemblies needed to run messagebox are
mscorlib
System.Windows.Forms

regards
ansil

"Marc Jennings" wrote:

Apologies if this is not the right group to ask this in, but I cannot
think where else it might fit!

I have a strange problem when I create an app that uses the a message
box.

When the box appears, it displays as I want it to, except that the
message text and button text do not show up. I've tried changing the
font in the desktop customisation thingummy, but to no avail.

The application, when built, runs perfectly on other machines with the
same version of the framework installed, but not on this one.

Does anyone know which dll is responsible for drawing the messagebox
(that might be the culprit), or have any other suggestions on how to
trace the fault?

Thanks in advance.
Marc.