[GIS] Adding popup message box before tool execution with ArcPy and ArcMap

arcgis-10.0arcmaparcpypython-2.6

I want to add a box message to pop up before execution of a button tool. When I click a button which will do geoprocessing, I want a box to appear on view before processing with message that I am about to do xxx processing.

How do I do it?

Best Answer

See Python Message Box Without huge library dependency at Stack Overflow.

Note that doing any sort of user interface in a geoprocessing tool is kind of a no-no and may annoy your end users.

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I think your question distils to whether it is possible using a single click on a Python AddIn tool to have the user interactively specify in order more than one geometry (in this case two points) to use in its processing, and to that I think the answer is "No".

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