The document discusses the InputBox function in Visual Basic, which displays a pop-up dialog box that accepts input from the user. It defines InputBox, provides its syntax and arguments, and gives an example that uses InputBox to insert text into a Word document a specified number of times. The InputBox function prompts the user, displays the response, and can include options for the title, default text, and positioning on screen.

1. Parul Institute Of Engineering & Technology
Subject code:- 151006
Name of subject:- Visual Basic And Application
Name of unit:- Using Intrinsic Dialogs
(Topic):- InputBox
Name of faculty:- 1) Ms.Nupur mam
Name of students:- 1) Vivek Patel (Roll.no- 146)
2) Sagar Pandya (Roll.no-140)

2. InputBox
 Defination:
 InputBox is used to accept input from the user.
 An inputBox is a pop up box,similar to a
message box which has a textBox.
 It also has a “OK” and “CANCEL” buttons.

3.  Syntax:
 InputBox(prompt [, title ] [, default ] [, xpos ]
[, ypos ] [, helpfile ] [, context ] )

4.  A way to ask a user of your system a question
is to use an Inputbox:
 Here's what we're trying to achieve:
 Ask the question:


5.  Display the answer:

6.  Here's the code:


7.  InputBox takes several arguments:
 Prompt
 Title
 Default
 Xpos
 Ypos
 HelpFile
 Context

8.  In this example, we have entered:
 Prompt: "How Many Apples Do You Want?"
 Title: "Apples"
 Default: 3
 We then display the choice back to the user,
but using this in a practical way, we'd trap the
answer and use it for something else

9. We check whether the return from the box is
""
If "" then they've pressed the Cancel
button, and we should exit.

10. Getting User Input With a
VBA Input Box
 This could be useful if you wanted to fill up a
page with text and print it to see if the margins
etc. look OK.
 1. Open a new document in Word.
 2. Open the VBA Editor (Tools>Macro>Visual
Basic Editor).
 3. Copy the following text from Sub
InputBoxInsertText() to End Sub, inclusively.

11.  Sub InputBoxInsertText()
Selection.HomeKey wdStory
TheSentence = InputBox("Type Text Please", "Using
the VBA Input Box")
HowManyTimes = InputBox("How many times",
"Using the VBA Input Box")
For Counter = 1 To HowManyTimes
Selection.TypeText TheSentence & " "
Next
End Sub

12.  4. Put the cursor anywhere within this code
block.
 5. Press F5
 6. Type a word or two into the first VBA input
box that appears.
 7. Type a number (between 50 and 100) into
the second Input Box.

13. 8. Go to the new document you opened and see
how the word or two that you typed into the
input box appears repeated the amount of times
corresponding to value you entered into the
second input box.

14. ARGUMENT
 prompt :
 Required.
 String expression displayed as the message in
the dialog box. The maximum length
ofprompt is approximately 1024 characters,
depending on the width of the characters
used.
 Ifprompt consists of more than one line, you
can separate the lines using a carriage return
character , a linefeed character , or carriage
return–linefeed character combination

15.  title :
 Optional. String expression displayed in the
title bar of the dialog box. If you omit title, the
application name is placed in the title bar.
 Default:
 Optional. String expression displayed in the
text box as the default response if no other
input is provided. If you omit default, the text
box is displayed empty.

16.  Xpos:
 Optional.
 Numeric expression that specifies, in twips,
the horizontal distance of the left edge of the
dialog box from the left edge of the screen.
 If xpos is omitted, the dialog box is
horizontally centered.

17.  Ypos:
 Optional.
 Numeric expression that specifies, in twips,
the vertical distance of the upper edge of the
dialog box from the top of the screen.
 If ypos is omitted, the dialog box is vertically
positioned approximately one-third of the way
down the screen.

18.  Helpfile:
 Optional.
 String expression that identifies the Help file to
use to provide context-sensitive Help for the
dialog box.
 If helpfile is provided, context must also be
provided.