Electron showMessageBox tutorial

With showMessageBox we can display a message with our without a set of buttons from which the user can choose from.

The minimum required code to show a message box is:

const { dialog } = require('electron')

const response = dialog.showMessageBox(null);
console.log(response);

But that would only display a box with no info and an OK-button. The dialog would return a response which contains the index of the button the user clicked.

An empty showMessageBox

Adding more info to the message box

Lets add more info the the box, A question and two buttons and use the callback method as well.

const options = {
    type: 'question',
    buttons: ['Cancel', 'Yes, please', 'No, thanks'],
    defaultId: 2,
    title: 'Question',
    message: 'Do you want to do this?',
    detail: 'It does not really matter',
    checkboxLabel: 'Remember my answer',
    checkboxChecked: true,
  };

  dialog.showMessageBox(null, options, (response, checkboxChecked) => {
    console.log(response);
    console.log(checkboxChecked);
  });

The code above would produce a message box looking like this:

Show message box

• type displays different icons in the messagebox.
• buttons is an array of strings that will be displayed as buttons.
• defaultId sets which of the buttons should be selected when opening the box.
• title displays a title on some platforms.
• message displays a message.
• detail displays more text below the message.
• checkboxLabel the box can display a checkbox as well. this is the label for it.
• checkboxChecked the initial value of the checkbox.

Checkout the dialog documentation to get more info and what values you can set for the different settings.

This code example is added to the electron tutorial app dialog on github.