Problem with MessageBox

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MessageBox("text","text");

this compiles ok in a dialog project but not in a single document project- states does not take 2 params.

AfxMessageBox() works but I want to insert the title in the box and does not seem to let me.

Not sure what to use ?

please help

Posted 20-Dec-12 6:48am

Jakey777

Updated 20-Dec-12 10:34am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Mar-13 17:56pm

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-20T07:06:00

In a C++ program using MFC you may use either the Windows API function MessageBox[^] or the MFC method CWnd::MessageBox[^].
The former takes four parameters, the latter may take three, two or just one parameter (because it has two optional parameters).
In your dialog application you are probably using the dialog's method (CDialog inherits from CWnd) while in your SDI application you are using the Windows API function (you are calling it from global scope, that is not in a CWnd-derived object method).