A simple dialog box to capture user input. Supports a single string input or selection of a value from a dropdown box. Also functions a a standard MessageBox. 20220202 - Enabled a scrolling textbox if message is too long. 20220213 - Updated XML comments 20220308 - Enable no icon and adjusted sizes of other elements accordingly 20231214 - Fixed combobox Enter key = click Ok button (if exists) 20231215 - Code Cleanup only (no true updates) 20240103 - Added numeric selector. moved Enums to separate classes (eliminate InputDialog.InputDialog.enum) 20240128 - Added ability to control appearance of scroll arrows when using Textbox style 20250821 - Update to .Net 9 and C# 13
$ dotnet add package InputDialogInput Dialog is a simple .net 6-windows, Winforms Input dialog in a nuget package.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/InputDialog/
See the sample usage apps in GitHub
using InputDialog;
namespace InputDialogUsageSample;
public partial class Main : Form
{
InputDialog.IDIcon selectedIcon = InputDialog.IDIcon.Question;
public Main()
{
InitializeComponent();
mnuIconSelectorQuestion.Checked = true;
}
private void btnSimpleTextInput_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var txt = cmLongText.Checked
? "This can be a long piece of text. This test is to show how the feature works. This is a really long chunk of text. I just want to see how it scrolls when it gets too long for the window."
: "Enter Text";
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
txt,
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnDefaultInput_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Enter text",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox,
defaultText: "Default Text",
multilineTextbox : false);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnChangeButtonName_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Enter text",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox,
buttonTexts: new ButtonTexts { OKText = "Do It long button text here" });
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnSimpleMsgBox_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"This is the message.",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel);
}
private void btnComboBoxWithError_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"This is the message.",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
type: InputDialog.IDType.ComboBox);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnChangeFont_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (fd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Enter text",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox,
formFont: new Font(fd.Font.FontFamily, fd.Font.Size, fd.Font.Style));
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
}
private void btnChangeBackColor_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Enter Text",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox,
backgroundColor: Color.AliceBlue);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnChangeForeColor_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Enter Text",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox,
foregroundColor: Color.Red);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnChangeBothColors_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Enter Text",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox,
foregroundColor: Color.White,
backgroundColor: Color.DarkBlue);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnBackgroundImage_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Enter Text",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
InputDialog.IDType.TextBox,
foregroundColor: Color.White,
formFont: new Font("Arial", 28, FontStyle.Bold),
backgroundImage: Image.FromFile(@"Images\Picture.jpg"),
backgroundImageLayout: ImageLayout.Stretch);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private static void ShowResult(string rslt)
{
MessageBox.Show(rslt, "InputDialog Result", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
}
private void btnEditableComboBox_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"This is the message.",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
type: InputDialog.IDType.ComboBox,
listItems: new List<string> { "Item 1", "Item2", "Item 3" },
acceptsUserInput: true);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void btnLockedComboBox_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"This is the message.",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
type: InputDialog.IDType.ComboBox,
listItems: new List<string> { "Item 1", "Item2", "Item 3" },
acceptsUserInput: false);
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
private void mnuIconSelector_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var sndr = sender as ToolStripMenuItem;
mnuIconSelectorError.Checked = false;
mnuIconSelectorExclamation.Checked = false;
mnuIconSelectorInformation.Checked = false;
mnuIconSelectorNone.Checked = false;
mnuIconSelectorQuestion.Checked = false;
var selectedItem = sndr?.Text;
switch (selectedItem)
{
case "Error":
selectedIcon = IDIcon.Error;
mnuIconSelectorError.Checked = true;
break;
case "Exclamation":
selectedIcon = IDIcon.Exclamation;
mnuIconSelectorExclamation.Checked = true;
break;
case "Information":
selectedIcon = IDIcon.Information;
mnuIconSelectorInformation.Checked = true;
break;
case "Question":
selectedIcon = IDIcon.Question;
mnuIconSelectorQuestion.Checked = true;
break;
default:
selectedIcon = IDIcon.Nothing;
mnuIconSelectorNone.Checked = true;
break;
}
}
private void btnNumericUpDown_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rslt = InputDialog.InputDialog.ShowDialog(
"Use the arrows to select a value.",
"Title",
selectedIcon,
InputDialog.IDButton.OkCancel,
type: InputDialog.IDType.Numeric,
numericProperties: new NumericProperties
{
//Try out these options that change the display
//Increment = 1,
//Maximum = 100,
//Minimum = 1,
//Value = 9999,
//DecimalPlaces = 2, ThousandsSeparator = true,
//UpDownAlign = LeftRightAlignment.Left,
//HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center
},
acceptsUserInput: true);;
if (rslt.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
ShowResult(rslt.ResultText);
}
}