message box

(thing) by erbo Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:59:43
A construct in most GUI systems consisting of a simple window containing a short text message, an optional icon, and one or more buttons which can be pressed to dismiss the message box.

Usually, a message box can be displayed by calling a single function in the GUI's API.

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