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October 26, 2007Oct 26, 200710/26/07Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I present users with a dialog box that enables them to rename a file? Ideally I’d like this to be in a loop of some kind, so that they could rename multiple files without having to restart the script.—
June 17, 2005Jun 17, 200506/17/05Hey, Scripting Guy! In previous columns you’ve shown us how to present users with a dialog box that enables them to select files. Is there any way to show them a dialog box that only lets users select folders?— LP
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June 2, 2005Jun 2, 200506/2/05Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to create a custom alert box that has over 1,000 characters in it. The message box used by Wscript.Echo can hold all the characters, but I can’t change the message box title. I can change the title of a message box used by the VBscript MsgBox function,
March 14, 2005Mar 14, 200503/14/05Hey, Scripting Guy! I’d like to display a Yes/No message box for a few seconds and then, if no one clicks a button, have the message box disappear and the script perform the default operation. How do I do that?— JR
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March 1, 2005Mar 1, 200503/1/05Hey, Scripting Guy! Awhile back you showed us how to use a File Open dialog box in our scripts. At the same time you said you’d show us how to use a multi-select dialog box. Did you just forget about the multi-select dialog box?—
January 28, 2005Jan 28, 200501/28/05Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way I can use a script to present a user with a dialog box and let him or her select a file?— BF
Hey, BF. If you’re using Windows 2000, we don’t know of a way to do this,
August 16, 2004Aug 16, 200408/16/04Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script which performs some file management tasks, and then should ask the user whether or not they want to delete a set of files. How do I ask a user a Yes or No question like this?
