# showMessageBoxAsync broken on windows8
**URL:** https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507
**Category:** General JUCE discussion
**Created:** [November 7, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507 "2012-11-07T14:18:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/1 "2012-11-07T14:18:33Z")
Hello all,
showMessageBoxAsync seems to be broken on win8:
win7:
win8:
- bram
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/2 "2012-11-07T14:49:33Z")
Works fine for me on Windows 8 :?
[attachment=0]Mystery.png[/attachment]
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/3 "2012-11-07T16:02:13Z")
Ah… I guess we’ll have to try with the dev tip…
- bram
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/4 "2012-11-07T16:04:15Z")
Ah, um, if you wouldn;t mind could you try with version f862392da8daacfdc54595e83d39cfb9349c9efd ?
- bram
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/5 "2012-11-07T16:10:33Z")
Sure!
…I’m getting the same result as I had before - still working fine! Did you change stuff in an AlertWindow’s LookAndFeel that could’ve messed with it?
And just checking; I reverse engineered your AlertWindow gitup, so does this resemble what you have to set the window up?
```auto
juce::AlertWindow::showMessageBoxAsync (juce::AlertWindow::InfoIcon, "Using \\n", "Line1\nLine2\nLine3\n", "ok");
```
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/6 "2012-11-07T16:22:21Z")
Yup:
> [@](#):
>
> ```
> AlertWindow::showMessageBoxAsync(AlertWindow::InfoIcon, "Using \\n", "Line1\nLine2\nLine3");
> AlertWindow::showMessageBoxAsync(AlertWindow::InfoIcon, "Using \\r\\n", "Line1\r\nLine2\r\nLine3");
>
> ```
Would you mind trying my build?
[https://dropbox.samplesumo.com/public/NewlineMessageBoxTest.exe](https://dropbox.samplesumo.com/public/NewlineMessageBoxTest.exe)
As a final test?
- bram
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/7 "2012-11-07T16:26:06Z")
Done:
[attachment=0]Borked.png[/attachment]
If you’re using VS; try a clean/rebuild, if you haven’t already… Can you share the code for that exe?
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### Author:  [@otristan](https://forum.juce.com/u/otristan)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/8 "2012-11-07T16:41:41Z")
I suspect that one is using Direct2D and the other not , no ?
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/9 "2012-11-07T16:43:26Z")
Hmmm, very weird!
The app does nothing: what you see is the only thing it does.
I could do a clean build, but I don’t think that will change anything.
The only thing I can think about is that you are probably running your app built on win8 and the one I’m giving you was built on win7…
Could that be it?!
- bram
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/10 "2012-11-07T16:53:13Z")
Had to mess with the modules path, and upgrade the project to a VS2012 one - but works fine for me!
I don’t see anything related to Direct2D being enabled in there - so that can’t be your issue…
[quote]The only thing I can think about is that you are probably running your app built on win8 and the one I’m giving you was built on win7…
Could that be it?![/quote]
That must be it - I’ve no way to test it right now though… 😑
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/11 "2012-11-07T17:02:52Z")
Ohdear…
So this means that if you statically link to the 2010 runtime, you might get into trouble running your app in win8.
Anyone else already experience this?
- bram
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### Author:  [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/12 "2012-11-07T18:28:59Z")
[quote=“bdejong”]Ohdear…
So this means that if you statically link to the 2010 runtime, you might get into trouble running your app in win8.
Anyone else already experience this?
- bram[/quote]
I very much doubt that - Windows is always good at backwards compatibility.
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/13 "2012-11-07T21:12:25Z")
Any other ideas, Jules?
Bram
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### Author:  [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/14 "2012-11-07T21:15:55Z")
I fixed something like this recently… Are you sure you built with the latest version?
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/15 "2012-11-08T00:28:57Z")
(In case this information is useful - I tried your project on Win7 64-bit with VS2010 - and it works fine)
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### Author:  [@bdejong](https://forum.juce.com/u/bdejong)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/16 "2012-11-08T07:29:36Z")
But… did you try running the binary built in win 7 on win8? Because that is what we are doing…
Bram
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/17 "2012-11-08T14:01:23Z")
Ah no I haven’t - doh! I’ll try it when I get the chance
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/18 "2012-11-17T17:03:14Z")
Just ran Win7 debug/release builds on Win8 - and I didn’t see the issue… (built with VS2010)
Likewise, created debug/release builds on Win8, ran fine on Win7… (also built with VS2010)
But, what really got me this time was that I built and ran the Introjucer on Windows 8, went to modify your project, and this happened:
[attachment=0]Just built and ran - Win8 VS2010.png[/attachment]
Very peculiar mystery here…
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### Author:  [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/19 "2012-11-17T17:10:39Z")
Updating JUCE and rebuilding the Introjucer seems to have made the issue disappear…
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### Author:  [@TheVinn](https://forum.juce.com/u/TheVinn)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/showmessageboxasync-broken-on-windows8/9507/20 "2012-11-17T20:43:24Z")
Why is the text so fuzzy in your screenshot?
…runs…
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