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RadioButtonBox, Version 1.00
Batch tool to present a Checkbox dialog and return the selected items
Usage: MULTIPLECHOICEBOX "list" [ "prompt" [ "title" ] ] [ options ]
or: MULTIPLECHOICEBOX /F:"listfile" [ "prompt" [ "title" ] ] [ options ]
or: listcommand | MULTIPLECHOICEBOX [ "prompt" [ "title" ] ] [ options ]
Where: "list" is a list of items to populate the checkbox group
"listcommand" is a command whose standard output is used as a list
of items to populate the checkbox group
"prompt" is the optional text above the checkbox group
(default: none)
"title" is the window title
(default: "MultipleChoiceBox, Version 1.00")
Options: /A show Aliases for command line switches (see Notes)
/C:columns sets the number of Columns for the checkbox group
(default: 1)
/D:"delimiter" sets the Delimiter character for "list"
(default: semicolon)
/DE DEdup: remove duplicates from "list"
/F:"listfile" use list from text File (one list item per line)
/H:height sets the window Height (default: autosized to make
content fit; minimum: 90; maximum: screen height - 68)
/I:index use Icon at index from shell32.dll (default: 23)
/K sKip first item of list (e.g. a header line)
/L[:"captions"] Localize or customize button captions
(e.g. /L:"OK=Why Not?;Cancel=No Way!")
/MF use Monospaced Font in prompt (default: proportional)
/NM make dialog Non-Modal (default: modal, i.e. on top)
/P:initial Preselect the initial checkboxes' state (see Notes)
/R:rows sets then number of Rows for the checkbox group
(default: one row per list item)
/S Sort list (default: unsorted)
/T:tablength sets the number of spaces for Tabs in prompt
(4..16; default: 4)
/W:width sets the window Width (default: autosized to make
content fit; minimum: 200; maximum: screen width - 16)
Notes: The selected item text is written to Standard Out if "OK" is clicked,
otherwise an empty string is returned.
Most command line switches have one or more aliases, e.g. instead
of /R:5 you can use /ROWS:5 to make your batch files more readable;
use command line switch /A to get a list of all available aliases.
Use either "list" or /F:"listfile" or "listcommand".
Linefeeds (\n), tabs (\t) and doublequotes (\") are allowed in the
prompt text (but not in the title); with tabs, /MF is recommended.
To get a custom title without prompt, use " " for prompt.
If specified without captions, switch /L forces localized button
captions (e.g. "Cancel" button caption is "Annuleren" on Dutch
systems); if only a single custom caption is specified, the other
one is localized (e.g. with /L:"OK=Gaan" on Dutch systems, "OK"
button caption is "Gaan", "Cancel" button caption is "Annuleren").
Return code 0 for "OK", 1 for (command line) errors, 2 for "Cancel".
With /P the inital state of each checkbox can be set; e.g. /P:5
wil set the 1st (1<<0 = 1) and 3rd (1<<2 = 4) checkboxes checked.
Return code is a binary representation of the checked items, e.g. 5
(0101) if only the 1st and 3rd checkboxes were checked, -1 on errors.
Be aware that the return code may be useless after sorting the list.
Credits: On-the-fly form based on code by Gorkem Gencay on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17546909
Code to retrieve localized button captions by Martin Stoeckli:
http://martinstoeckli.ch/csharp/csharp.html#windows_text_resources
Code to extract icons from Shell32.dll by Thomas Levesque:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873026
Written by Rob van der Woude
http://www.robvanderwoude.com
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