GtkMessageDialog

GtkMessageDialog — convenient message window

Synopsis

#include <gtk/gtk.h>


struct      GtkMessageDialog;
enum        GtkMessageType;
enum        GtkButtonsType;
GtkWidget*  gtk_message_dialog_new          (GtkWindow *parent,
                                             GtkDialogFlags flags,
                                             GtkMessageType type,
                                             GtkButtonsType buttons,
                                             const gchar *message_format,
                                             ...);

Object Hierarchy

  GObject
   +----GtkObject
         +----GtkWidget
               +----GtkContainer
                     +----GtkBin
                           +----GtkWindow
                                 +----GtkDialog
                                       +----GtkMessageDialog

Implemented Interfaces

GtkMessageDialog implements AtkImplementorIface.

Properties

  "buttons"              GtkButtonsType       : Write / Construct Only
  "message-type"         GtkMessageType       : Read / Write / Construct

Style Properties

  "message-border"       gint                 : Read

Description

GtkMessageDialog presents a dialog with an image representing the type of message (Error, Question, etc.) alongside some message text. It's simply a convenience widget; you could construct the equivalent of GtkMessageDialog from GtkDialog without too much effort, but GtkMessageDialog saves typing.

The easiest way to do a modal message dialog is to use gtk_dialog_run(), though you can also pass in the GTK_DIALOG_MODAL flag, gtk_dialog_run() automatically makes the dialog modal and waits for the user to respond to it. gtk_dialog_run() returns when any dialog button is clicked.

Example 2. A modal dialog.

 dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new (main_application_window,
                                  GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
                                  GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
                                  GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE,
                                  "Error loading file 's': s",
                                  filename, g_strerror (errno));
 gtk_dialog_run (GTK_DIALOG (dialog));
 gtk_widget_destroy (dialog);

You might do a non-modal GtkMessageDialog as follows:

Example 3. A non-modal dialog.

 dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new (main_application_window,
                                  GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
                                  GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
                                  GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE,
                                  "Error loading file 's': s",
                                  filename, g_strerror (errno));

 /* Destroy the dialog when the user responds to it (e.g. clicks a button) */
 g_signal_connect_swapped (GTK_OBJECT (dialog), "response",
                           G_CALLBACK (gtk_widget_destroy),
                           GTK_OBJECT (dialog));

Details

struct GtkMessageDialog

struct GtkMessageDialog;

enum GtkMessageType

typedef enum
{
  GTK_MESSAGE_INFO,
  GTK_MESSAGE_WARNING,
  GTK_MESSAGE_QUESTION,
  GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR
} GtkMessageType;

The type of message being displayed in the dialog.

`GTK_MESSAGE_INFO`	Informational message
`GTK_MESSAGE_WARNING`	Nonfatal warning message
`GTK_MESSAGE_QUESTION`	Question requiring a choice
`GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR`	Fatal error message

enum GtkButtonsType

typedef enum
{
  GTK_BUTTONS_NONE,
  GTK_BUTTONS_OK,
  GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE,
  GTK_BUTTONS_CANCEL,
  GTK_BUTTONS_YES_NO,
  GTK_BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL
} GtkButtonsType;

Prebuilt sets of buttons for the dialog. If none of these choices are appropriate, simply use GTK_BUTTONS_NONE then call gtk_dialog_add_buttons().

`GTK_BUTTONS_NONE`	no buttons at all
`GTK_BUTTONS_OK`	an OK button
`GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE`	a Close button
`GTK_BUTTONS_CANCEL`	a Cancel button
`GTK_BUTTONS_YES_NO`	Yes and No buttons
`GTK_BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL`	OK and Cancel buttons