jj2007
I tried those instructions in vain, the problem was not a driver but lost settings.

after updating I had no system sounds, even though the media player worked ok, after much trial and error, I found the fix. in the windows search box I entered sound and chose "Change system sounds" the sound scheme box had "No sounds", selecting Windows Default solved the proble...

@dodicat
nice :-)

@deltarho[1859] and Josep Roca thank you
that's a nice themed input box :-)

@Josep Roca thanks, there are no warnings when using your latest version :-)

thank you UEZ
look forward to the unicode version :-)

@deltarho[1859]
if you want fix the suspicious pointer warnings in AfxWin.inc, just change LPWSTR = RT_RCDATA to LPWSTR = Cptr(LPWSTR, RT_RCDATA) in functions AfxExtractResourceToFile and AfxExtractResource

@UEZ thank you
but your input box as it is, lacks the functionality of returning user input, other than the yes or no
but I like the fading effect :-)

@deltarho[1859] thank you :-)
I had no Idea that Josep Roca had already made a perfect input box, I also noticed the suspicious pointer warning, but have no idea how to fix it, but as long as it works I am happy.

hi dodicat
that's very good, I really like the simplicity and brevity of your code, thank you :-)

@marpon I am using FBC Version 1.07.0 (06-06-2019), with gcc 9.1.0 when compiling to 64-bit was getting a warning on the line DialogBoxParam(hIn1 , Cast(ZString Ptr , IDD_DLG1) , 0 , @DlgProc , 0) msgbox.bas(64) warning 3(1): Passing different pointer types, at parameter 4 of DIALOGBOXPARAM() changi...

@marpon
for some reason the printf statements are not agreeable to the C compiler, replacing them with Print solves the problem :-)

@all
thanks for your valuable code and suggestions
@marpon
your code is exactly what I am after, it compiles and runs ok when using gas but it fails to compile when using gen gcc, would you be so kind and look into it?

in the spirit of my previous thread https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27723 I would like a simple input box using Windows API this could probably be achieved by using a library like IUP or GTK, but I would rather not use external libraries, I am convinced that it can be done by...

@UEZ works as advertised :-) just an observation, when compiling with -w pedantic there are a number of warnings due to missing byval or byref in your function declarations, it's easy enough to see that they should be byval, except for arrays another thing, a normal exit is usually 0. I hope that yo...