gtk.MessageDialog

gtk.MessageDialog — a convenient message window

Synopsis

class gtk.MessageDialog(gtk.Dialog):
    gtk.MessageDialog(parent=None, flags=0, type=gtk.MESSAGE_INFO, buttons=gtk.BUTTONS_NONE, message_format=None)
def set_markup(str)
def format_secondary_text(message_format)
def format_secondary_markup(message_format)
def set_image(image)
def get_image()
def get_message_area()

Ancestry

+-- gobject.GObject
  +-- gtk.Object
    +-- gtk.Widget
      +-- gtk.Container
        +-- gtk.Bin
          +-- gtk.Window
            +-- gtk.Dialog
              +-- gtk.MessageDialog

Implemented Interfaces

gtk.MessageDialog implements gtk.Buildable

gtk.MessageDialog Properties

gtk.Object Properties

gtk.Widget Properties

gtk.Container Properties

gtk.Window Properties

gtk.Dialog Properties

"buttons"Write-ConstructThe buttons shown in the message dialog. One of the GTK Buttons Type Constants: gtk.BUTTONS_NONE, gtk.BUTTONS_OK, gtk.BUTTONS_CLOSE, gtk.BUTTONS_CANCEL, gtk.BUTTONS_YES_NO, gtk.BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL. Default value: gtk.BUTTONS_NONE
"image"Read-WriteThe image for this dialog. Available in GTK+ 2.10.
"message-area"ReadThe gtk.VBox that corresponds to the message area of this dialog. Available in GTK+ 2.22.
"message-type"Read-Write-ConstructThe type of message. One of the GTK Message Type Constants: gtk.MESSAGE_INFO, gtk.MESSAGE_WARNING, gtk.MESSAGE_QUESTION or gtk.MESSAGE_ERROR. Default value: gtk.MESSAGE_INFO
"secondary-text"Read-WriteThe secondary text of the message dialog. Default value: None. Available in GTK+ 2.10.
"secondary-use-markup"Read-WriteIf True the secondary text of the dialog includes Pango markup. See the pango.parse_markup() function. Default value: False. Available in GTK+ 2.10.
"text"Read-WriteThe primary text of the message dialog. If the dialog has a secondary text, this will appear as the title. Default value: None. Available in GTK+ 2.10.
"use-markup"Read-WriteIf True the primary text of the dialog includes Pango markup. See the pango.parse_markup() function. Default value: False. Available in GTK+ 2.10.

gtk.MessageDialog Style Properties

gtk.Widget Style Properties

gtk.Dialog Style Properties

"message-border"Read-WriteThe width of border around the label and image in the message dialog. Allowed values: >= 0. Default value: 12.
"use-separator"ReadIf True draw a separator line between the message label and the buttons in the dialog. This property is available in GTK+ 2.4 and above.

Attributes

"image"ReadThe stock ID image
"label"ReadThe label widget that contains the message text.

gtk.MessageDialog Signal Prototypes

gobject.GObject Signal Prototypes

gtk.Object Signal Prototypes

gtk.Widget Signal Prototypes

gtk.Container Signal Prototypes

gtk.Window Signal Prototypes

gtk.Dialog Signal Prototypes

Description

The gtk.MessageDialog 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 gtk.MessageDialog from gtk.Dialog without too much effort, but gtk.MessageDialog saves time.

The gtk.MessageDialog types are listed in the GTK Message Type Constants.

A selection of predefined button sets is available for use in a message dialog. See the GTK Buttons Type Constants.

See the gtk.Dialog reference page for additional methods to be used with the gtk.MessageDialog.

Constructor

    gtk.MessageDialog(parent=None, flags=0, type=gtk.MESSAGE_INFO, buttons=gtk.BUTTONS_NONE, message_format=None)

parent :

the transient parent, or None if none

flags :

the dialog flags - a combination of: gtk.DIALOG_MODAL, gtk.DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT or 0 for no flags

type :

the type of message: gtk.MESSAGE_INFO, gtk.MESSAGE_WARNING, gtk.MESSAGE_QUESTION or gtk.MESSAGE_ERROR.

buttons :

the predefined set of buttons to use: gtk.BUTTONS_NONE, gtk.BUTTONS_OK, gtk.BUTTONS_CLOSE, gtk.BUTTONS_CANCEL, gtk.BUTTONS_YES_NO, gtk.BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL

message_format :

a string containing the message text or None

Returns :

a new gtk.MessageDialog widget

Creates a new gtk.MessageDialog, which is a simple dialog with an icon indicating the dialog type (error, warning, etc.) specified by type and some text (message_format) the user may want to see. parent if specified indicates the transient parent of the dialog. The flags allow the specification special dialog characteristics: make the dialog modal (gtk.DIALOG_MODAL) and destroy the dialog when the parent is destroyed (gtk.DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT). When the user clicks a button a "response" signal is emitted with response IDs. buttons specifies the set of predefined buttons to use: gtk.BUTTONS_NONE, gtk.BUTTONS_OK, gtk.BUTTONS_CLOSE, gtk.BUTTONS_CANCEL, gtk.BUTTONS_YES_NO, gtk.BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL. See gtk.Dialog for more details.

Methods

gtk.MessageDialog.set_markup

    def set_markup(str)

str :

a markup string (see the Pango markup language reference)

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.4 and above.

The set_markup() method sets the text of the message dialog to the contents of str. If str contains text marked up with Pango markup (see The Pango Markup Language), it will be displayed with those attributes. Note the '<', '>' and '&' characters must be replaced with '&lt;', '&gt;' and '&amp;' respectively to be displayed literally.

gtk.MessageDialog.format_secondary_text

    def format_secondary_text(message_format)

message_format :

The text to be displayed as the secondary text or None.

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.6 and above.

The format_secondary_text() method sets the secondary text of the message dialog to the text specified by message_format. Note that setting a secondary text makes the primary text bold, unless you have provided explicit markup.

gtk.MessageDialog.format_secondary_markup

    def format_secondary_markup(message_format)

message_format :

A string containing the pango markup to use as secondary text.

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.6 and above.

The format_secondary_markup() method sets the secondary text to the markup text specified by message_format. Note that setting a secondary text makes the primary text become bold, unless you have provided explicit markup.

gtk.MessageDialog.set_image

    def set_image(image)

image :

the image widget

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.10 and above.

The set_image() method sets the dialog's image to the gtk.Widget specified by image.

gtk.MessageDialog.get_image

    def get_image()

Returns :

the dialog's image.

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.14 and above.

The get_image() method gets the dialog's image.

gtk.MessageDialog.get_message_area

    def get_message_area()

Returns :

A gtk.VBox corresponding to the "message area" in the message_dialog.

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.22 and above.

The get_message_area() method 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, on the right side of the dialog's image (or on the left for right-to-left languages). See get_content_area for the corresponding function in the parent gtk.Dialog.