Highlight text in the message of an SWT MessageBox

Question

When I run this code:

MessageBox mb = new MessageBox(getShell());
mb.setText("Title");
mb.setMessage("Message");
mb.open();

I am presented with a message box. However, I am unable to use my mouse cursor to select the message so that I can copy it to my clipboard.

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

In short: No. The message box is provided by the respective platform (ie Windows, Linux or MacOS) and you cannot influence how the message is presented.

To be able to copy the message text you need to create a custom message dialog that uses a read-only Text widget to show the message and allows copying its content.

You may want to look into the JFace MessageDialog code for an example of a custom dialog.