Python input box inside a message box

Question

is there any way to have an input box inside of an message box opened with the ctypes library? so far I have:

import ctypes
messageBox = ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxA
title = 'Title'
text = 'Message box!'
returnValue = messageBox(None, text, title, 0x40 | 0x1)
print returnValue

and this gives a message box with an image icon and two buttons, both of which I know how to change, and it sets a variable "returnValue" to a number representing the button clicked. However, I also need a variable that will set to a string input in the message box. The reason I need this and I can't just do simple a = raw_input('prompt') is that I want the program itself to run in the background (it would launch itself on logon).

Answer 1

If you want a simple solution, use the PyMsgBox module. It uses Python's built-in tkinter library to create message boxes, including ones that let the user type a response. Install it with pip install pymsgbox.

The documentation is here: https://pymsgbox.readthedocs.org/

The code you want is:

>>> import pymsgbox
>>> returnValue = pymsgbox.prompt('Message box!', 'Title')