Anyone that’s ever developed any computer solution knows the importance of providing messages to the end-users.  Now, Microsoft provides the MsgBox, but to say it is primitive is an understatement.  It hasn’t progressed in any way since its inception!  Want to highlight your text, bold, italic, … simply NOT possible.

No worries!  Once again, a developer saw a need and he, Renaud Bompuis, decided to fill it and then provided the solution to the www community free of charge!  The solution is the Enhanced Message Box.

And what an exceptional solution it is!!!

What can it do?

What can’t it do should be the question!

• First and foremost, it can accept HTML formatting so you can create truly beautiful messages
• It has options to copy the message (great for reporting what errors a user receives)
• It has an option to save the message
• See the developers website for a full listing of features

How much does it cost?

Nothing!  No strings attached.  Simply download the zip file and copy the form and module into your database and start using it.  The zip file contains an unlocked accdb file with everything you need!

Renaud, provides numerous code examples on his site and it truly isn’t very complicated to use in the first place.  It has similar syntax to Microsoft’s website only it is much better!

Renaud, even provides a form to test things out so you can easily see it in action and compare the result to the standard message box (as if there was any comparison).

You can also easily update your existing databases to use the Enhanced Message Box by simply performing a Find and Replace.  That’s as hard as it gets.  So check it out for yourself, you have absolutely nothing to loose!

All I can say is Thank you Renaud for this exceptional tool and thank you for sharing with us all!  It is one more way of taking any database to the next level.