{"id":81,"date":"2011-09-15T02:58:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.automationrepository.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-10-09T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:51:38","slug":"msgbox-ran-out-of-space-try-dotnetfactory-messagebox-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.automationrepository.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/msgbox-ran-out-of-space-try-dotnetfactory-messagebox-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"MsgBox Ran Out of Space? Try DotNetFactory MessageBox instead."},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that the VBScript MsgBox that we usually use in QTP can display a string of maximum 1023 characters only? If the length of the string is more than 1023 characters, the MsgBox displays only the initial 1023 characters, leaving out the remaining ones.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n
sMsg = “”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
‘For Loop to create a string of 1021 characters<\/span><\/div>\n
For<\/span> i = 1 to<\/span> 1021<\/div>\n
\u00a0 sMsg = sMsg & “*”<\/div>\n
Next<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
sMsg = sMsg & “END”<\/span><\/div>\n
‘Display the text in MsgBox<\/span>
\nmsgbox sMsg<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\n

Now when we run the above code, we’ll get a popup box as displayed in the below image – \"VBScript<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here, you can observe that since the length of the string was 1024 characters, the message box skipped the last character ‘D’ in order to display 1023 characters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The next obvious question that comes in our minds is – Is there any other way using which we can display more than 1023 characters in QTP using a message box? Is there any workaround? And the answer is.. YES!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Although the VBScript MsgBox displays only maximum 1023 characters in a popup box, you can use Microsoft’s Windows Forms ‘MessageBox’<\/strong> in QTP to display strings having much more characters. QTP provides a utility object named “DotNetFactory’, using which, you can access Windows Forms MessageBox and many other Form objects in your script.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Example:<\/span><\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n
sMsg = “”
\n<\/span>
\n‘For Loop to create a string of say, 3000 characters<\/span>
\nFor<\/span> i = 1 to<\/span> 3000
\nsMsg = sMsg & “*”<\/span>
\nNext
\n<\/span>
\nsMsg = sMsg & “END”
\n<\/span>
\n‘Display the text in Windows Forms MessageBox<\/span>
\nSet MsgBox = DotNetFactory.CreateInstance(“System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox”<\/span>, “System.Windows.Forms”<\/span>)
\nMyMsgBox.Show sMsg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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If you run the above code, you get a popup message as shown below –<\/p>\n

\"Windows

DotNetFactory Windows Forms MessageBox in QTP<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here you can see that the text ‘END’ is completely visible in the MessageBox even after it displays a string of 3000 asterisks (*) . This shows that you can use Windows Forms MessageBox whenever you want more than 1023 characters to be displayed in your popup box.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Note:<\/span> Even though you can display thousands of characters in a popup box using\u00a0 Windows Forms MessageBox, but it really doesn’t make sense to display more than 8K-9K characters in a MessageBox. This is because if the characters exceed a certain limit, the boundaries of the message box would exceed that the size of the screen rendering many portions of the text unreadable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Reading… :–)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Did you know that the VBScript MsgBox that we usually use in QTP can display a string of maximum 1023 characters only? If the length of the string is more than 1023 characters, the MsgBox displays only the initial 1023 characters, leaving out the remaining ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qtp-concepts","tag-dotnetfactory","tag-msgbox"],"yoast_head":"\nMsgBox Ran Out of Space? 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