Gtk.MessageDialog¶

Example¶

Subclasses:: None

Methods¶

Inherited:: Gtk.Dialog (14), Gtk.Window (119), Gtk.Bin (1), Gtk.Container (35), Gtk.Widget (278), GObject.Object (37), Gtk.Buildable (10)
Structs:: Gtk.ContainerClass (5), Gtk.WidgetClass (12), GObject.ObjectClass (5)

	`format_secondary_markup` (message_format)
	`format_secondary_text` (message_format)
	`get_image` ()
	`get_message_area` ()
	`set_image` (image)
	`set_markup` (str)

Virtual Methods¶

Inherited:: Gtk.Dialog (2), Gtk.Window (5), Gtk.Container (10), Gtk.Widget (82), GObject.Object (7), Gtk.Buildable (10)

Properties¶

Inherited:: Gtk.Dialog (1), Gtk.Window (33), Gtk.Container (3), Gtk.Widget (39)

Name	Type	Flags	Short Description
`buttons`	`Gtk.ButtonsType`	w/co	The buttons shown in the message dialog
`image`	`Gtk.Widget`	d/r/w	The image `deprecated`
`message-area`	`Gtk.Widget`	r	`Gtk.Box` that holds the dialog’s primary and secondary labels
`message-type`	`Gtk.MessageType`	r/w/c/en	The type of message
`secondary-text`	`str`	r/w	The secondary text of the message dialog
`secondary-use-markup`	`bool`	r/w/en	The secondary text includes Pango markup.
`text`	`str`	r/w	The primary text of the message dialog
`use-markup`	`bool`	r/w/en	The primary text of the title includes Pango markup.

Style Properties¶

Inherited:: Gtk.Dialog (4), Gtk.Window (2), Gtk.Widget (17)

Name	Type	Default	Flags	Short Description
`message-border`	`int`	`12`	r	Width of border around the label in the message dialog

Signals¶

Inherited:: Gtk.Dialog (2), Gtk.Window (5), Gtk.Container (4), Gtk.Widget (69), GObject.Object (1)

Fields¶

Inherited:: Gtk.Dialog (2), Gtk.Window (5), Gtk.Container (4), Gtk.Widget (69), GObject.Object (1)

Name	Type	Access	Description
parent_instance	`Gtk.Dialog`	r

Class Details¶

class Gtk.MessageDialog(*args, **kwargs)¶

Bases:: Gtk.Dialog
Abstract:: No
Structure:: Gtk.MessageDialogClass

Gtk.MessageDialog presents a dialog with some message text. It’s simply a convenience widget; you could construct the equivalent of Gtk.MessageDialog from Gtk.Dialog without too much effort, but Gtk.MessageDialog saves typing.

One difference from Gtk.Dialog is that Gtk.MessageDialog sets the Gtk.Window :skip-taskbar-hint property to True, so that the dialog is hidden from the taskbar by default.

The easiest way to do a modal message dialog is to use Gtk.Dialog.run(), though you can also pass in the Gtk.DialogFlags.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.

An example for using a modal dialog:

GtkDialogFlags flags = GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT;
dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new (parent_window,
                                 flags,
                                 GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
                                 GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE,
                                 "Error reading “%s”: %s",
                                 filename,
                                 g_strerror (errno));
gtk_dialog_run (GTK_DIALOG (dialog));
gtk_widget_destroy (dialog);

You might do a non-modal Gtk.MessageDialog as follows:

An example for a non-modal dialog:

GtkDialogFlags flags = GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT;
dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new (parent_window,
                                 flags,
                                 GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
                                 GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE,
                                 "Error reading “%s”: %s",
                                 filename,
                                 g_strerror (errno));

// Destroy the dialog when the user responds to it
// (e.g. clicks a button)

g_signal_connect_swapped (dialog, "response",
                          G_CALLBACK (gtk_widget_destroy),
                          dialog);

Gtk.MessageDialog as Gtk.Buildable

The Gtk.MessageDialog implementation of the Gtk.Buildable interface exposes the message area as an internal child with the name “message_area”.

format_secondary_markup(message_format)[source]¶

Sets the secondary text of the message dialog to be message_format (with printf()-style), which is marked up with the Pango text markup language.

Due to an oversight, this function does not escape special XML characters like gtk_message_dialog_new_with_markup() does. Thus, if the arguments may contain special XML characters, you should use g_markup_printf_escaped() to escape it.

gchar *msg;

msg = g_markup_printf_escaped (message_format, ...);
gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_markup (message_dialog,
                                            "%s", msg);
g_free (msg);

New in version 2.6.

format_secondary_text(message_format)[source]¶: Sets the secondary text of the message dialog to be message_format (with printf()-style).

New in version 2.6.

get_image()[source]¶

Returns:: the dialog’s image
Return type:: Gtk.Widget

Gets the dialog’s image.

New in version 2.14.

Deprecated since version 3.12: Use Gtk.Dialog for dialogs with images

get_message_area()[source]¶

Returns:: A Gtk.Box corresponding to the “message area” in the self.
Return type:: Gtk.Widget

Returns the message area of the dialog. This is the box where the dialog’s primary and secondary labels are packed. You can add your own extra content to that box and it will appear below those labels. See Gtk.Dialog.get_content_area() for the corresponding function in the parent Gtk.Dialog.

New in version 2.22.

set_image(image)[source]¶

Parameters:: image (Gtk.Widget) – the image

Sets the dialog’s image to image.

New in version 2.10.

Deprecated since version 3.12: Use Gtk.Dialog to create dialogs with images

set_markup(str)[source]¶

Parameters:: str (str) – markup string (see Pango markup format)

Sets the text of the message dialog to be str, which is marked up with the Pango text markup language.

New in version 2.4.

Property Details¶

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.buttons¶

Name:: buttons
Type:: Gtk.ButtonsType
Default Value:: Gtk.ButtonsType.NONE
Flags:: WRITABLE, CONSTRUCT_ONLY

The buttons shown in the message dialog

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.image¶

Name:: image
Type:: Gtk.Widget
Default Value:: None
Flags:: DEPRECATED, READABLE, WRITABLE

The image for this dialog.

New in version 2.10.

Deprecated since version 3.12: Use Gtk.Dialog to create dialogs with images

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.message_area¶

Name:: message-area
Type:: Gtk.Widget
Default Value:: None
Flags:: READABLE

The Gtk.Box that corresponds to the message area of this dialog. See Gtk.MessageDialog.get_message_area() for a detailed description of this area.

New in version 2.22.

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.message_type¶

Name:: message-type
Type:: Gtk.MessageType
Default Value:: Gtk.MessageType.INFO
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE, CONSTRUCT, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The type of the message.

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.secondary_text¶

Name:: secondary-text
Type:: str
Default Value:: None
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE

The secondary text of the message dialog.

New in version 2.10.

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.secondary_use_markup¶

Name:: secondary-use-markup
Type:: bool
Default Value:: False
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

True if the secondary text of the dialog includes Pango markup. See Pango.parse_markup().

New in version 2.10.

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.text¶

Name:: text
Type:: str
Default Value:: ''
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE

The primary text of the message dialog. If the dialog has a secondary text, this will appear as the title.

New in version 2.10.

Gtk.MessageDialog.props.use_markup¶

Name:: use-markup
Type:: bool
Default Value:: False
Flags:: READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

True if the primary text of the dialog includes Pango markup. See Pango.parse_markup().

New in version 2.10.