MessageBox with timeout

[borreo (Carlo Borreo)]

Before UiPath, I was using AutoIt.
A feature that I am missing is the message box with timeout: this helps for instance while developing, in order to quickly display some info when the robot is operating full screen.
For instance, a message box saying “Now I am clicking Refresh button”, with a timeout of 1 second, helps to understand what’s happening, even when without using the advanced debugging features.
Is there a way to do the same in UiPath?

[lakshman (Ganta lakshman)]

@borreo

Use Call Out activity and it will show pop up couple seconds and it will go. You need to click Ok and all.

[borreo (Carlo Borreo)]

You mean, I don’t need to click Ok, right? Because this is the point.

[lakshman (Ganta lakshman)]

@borreo

@borreo

I don’t need to click Ok, right?

Yes.

[borreo (Carlo Borreo)]

I can’t make CallOut work.
I just add this activity, indicate the Refresh button, set the timeout to 1000 (one second), run debugger and I get this error:

Callout ‘INPUT REFRESH_BTN’: Unable to cast object of type ‘EmptyDelegateActivity’ to type ‘System.Activities.ActivityWithResult’.

[borreo (Carlo Borreo)]

Another strange thing: when I look at the properties, the activity is called CalloutScope, but I drag it as CallOut

[Karun (Karun Kumar Nalam)]

Hi @borreo

Have a look on these posts

UiPathTeam.AttendedRobotStatus.Activities

A simple interactive attended robot status notification. (“stop light” like, red - stop, green - go, yellow - neutral). Meant for human users sharing machine with the attended robot. It’s sync (in this version) and the status displays for 2 seconds. Based on an idea and VB code by @vvaidya on UiPath forums (see Any Way to Show Robot Current Status? - #2 by ddpadil ) - only a few changes, got it in C# and encapsulated it in a Custom Activity. Package: UiPathTeam.AttendedRobotStatus.Activities …

Any Way to Show Robot Current Status?

Hello, I am building an assisting robot which requires the human and the robot works together (robot is waiting for human to click any button, and if the button is clicked robot do this, and after another field is filled robot do that etc). But it turns out that human doesn’t really get what the robot is doing now (is it waiting for me, or processing or what). Is there any way to easily notify human what the robot is doing now (what I image is like small overlaying wording right top the screen …