## GtkMessageDialog

GtkMessageDialog — A convenient message window

## Functions

GtkWidget * | gtk_message_dialog_new ()
GtkWidget * | gtk_message_dialog_new_with_markup ()
void | gtk_message_dialog_set_markup ()
void | gtk_message_dialog_set_image ()
GtkWidget * | gtk_message_dialog_get_image ()
void | gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_text ()
void | gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_markup ()
GtkWidget * | gtk_message_dialog_get_message_area ()

## Properties

GtkButtonsType | buttons | Write / Construct Only
GtkWidget * | image | Read / Write
GtkWidget * | message-area | Read
GtkMessageType | message-type | Read / Write / Construct
gchar * | secondary-text | Read / Write
gboolean | secondary-use-markup | Read / Write
gchar * | text | Read / Write
gboolean | use-markup | Read / Write

## Style Properties

gint | message-border | Read

## Types and Values

struct | GtkMessageDialog
enum | GtkMessageType
enum | GtkButtonsType

## Object Hierarchy

        GObject
        ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
            ╰── GtkWidget
                ╰── GtkContainer
                    ╰── GtkBin
                        ╰── GtkWindow
                            ╰── GtkDialog
                                ╰── GtkMessageDialog

## Implemented Interfaces

GtkMessageDialog implements AtkImplementorIface and GtkBuildable.

## Includes

    #include <gtk/gtk.h>

## Description

GtkMessageDialog presents a dialog with 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.

One difference from GtkDialog is that GtkMessageDialog sets the “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_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.

An example for using a modal dialog:

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    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 GtkMessageDialog as follows:

An example for a non-modal dialog:

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    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);

### GtkMessageDialog as GtkBuildable

The GtkMessageDialog implementation of the GtkBuildable interface exposes the message area as an internal child with the name “message_area”.

## Functions

### gtk_message_dialog_new ()

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

Creates a new message dialog, which is a simple dialog with some text the user may want to see. When the user clicks a button a “response” signal is emitted with response IDs from GtkResponseType. See GtkDialog for more details.

#### Parameters

parent | transient parent, or `NULL` for none. | [allow-none]
flags | flags |
type | type of message |
buttons | set of buttons to use |
message_format | printf()-style format string, or `NULL`. | [allow-none]
... | arguments for `message_format` |

#### Returns

a new GtkMessageDialog.

[transfer none]

### gtk_message_dialog_new_with_markup ()

    GtkWidget *
    gtk_message_dialog_new_with_markup (GtkWindow *parent,
                                        GtkDialogFlags flags,
                                        GtkMessageType type,
                                        GtkButtonsType buttons,
                                        const gchar *message_format,
                                        ...);

Creates a new message dialog, which is a simple dialog with some text that is marked up with the Pango text markup language. When the user clicks a button a “response” signal is emitted with response IDs from GtkResponseType. See GtkDialog for more details.

Special XML characters in the `printf()` arguments passed to this function will automatically be escaped as necessary. (See `g_markup_printf_escaped()` for how this is implemented.) Usually this is what you want, but if you have an existing Pango markup string that you want to use literally as the label, then you need to use `gtk_message_dialog_set_markup()` instead, since you can’t pass the markup string either as the format (it might contain “%” characters) or as a string argument.

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    GtkWidget *dialog;
    GtkDialogFlags flags = GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT;
    dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new (parent_window,
                                     flags,
                                     GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
                                     GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE,
                                     NULL);
    gtk_message_dialog_set_markup (GTK_MESSAGE_DIALOG (dialog),
                                   markup);

#### Parameters

parent | transient parent, or `NULL` for none. | [allow-none]
flags | flags |
type | type of message |
buttons | set of buttons to use |
message_format | printf()-style format string, or `NULL`. | [allow-none]
... | arguments for `message_format` |

#### Returns

a new GtkMessageDialog

Since: 2.4

### gtk_message_dialog_set_markup ()

    void
    gtk_message_dialog_set_markup (GtkMessageDialog *message_dialog,
                                   const gchar *str);

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

#### Parameters

message_dialog | a GtkMessageDialog |
str | markup string (see Pango markup format) |

Since: 2.4

### gtk_message_dialog_set_image ()

    void
    gtk_message_dialog_set_image (GtkMessageDialog *dialog,
                                  GtkWidget *image);

`gtk_message_dialog_set_image` has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkDialog to create dialogs with images

Sets the dialog’s image to `image` .

#### Parameters

dialog | a GtkMessageDialog |
image | the image |

Since: 2.10

### gtk_message_dialog_get_image ()

    GtkWidget *
    gtk_message_dialog_get_image (GtkMessageDialog *dialog);

`gtk_message_dialog_get_image` has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkDialog for dialogs with images

Gets the dialog’s image.

#### Parameters

dialog | a GtkMessageDialog |

#### Returns

the dialog’s image.

[transfer none]

Since: 2.14

### gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_text ()

    void
    gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_text
                                   (GtkMessageDialog *message_dialog,
                                    const gchar *message_format,
                                    ...);

Sets the secondary text of the message dialog to be `message_format` (with `printf()`-style).

#### Parameters

message_dialog | a GtkMessageDialog |
message_format | printf()-style format string, or `NULL`. | [allow-none]
... | arguments for `message_format` |

Since: 2.6

### gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_markup ()

    void
    gtk_message_dialog_format_secondary_markup
                                   (GtkMessageDialog *message_dialog,
                                    const gchar *message_format,
                                    ...);

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.

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    gchar *msg;

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

#### Parameters

message_dialog | a GtkMessageDialog |
message_format | printf()-style markup string (see Pango markup format), or `NULL` |
... | arguments for `message_format` |

Since: 2.6

### gtk_message_dialog_get_message_area ()

    GtkWidget *
    gtk_message_dialog_get_message_area (GtkMessageDialog *message_dialog);

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 GtkDialog.

#### Parameters

message_dialog | a GtkMessageDialog |

#### Returns

A GtkBox corresponding to the “message area” in the `message_dialog` .

[transfer none]

Since: 2.22

## Types and Values

### struct GtkMessageDialog

    struct GtkMessageDialog;

### enum GtkMessageType

The type of message being displayed in the dialog.

#### Members

GTK_MESSAGE_INFO | Informational message |
GTK_MESSAGE_WARNING | Non-fatal warning message |
GTK_MESSAGE_QUESTION | Question requiring a choice |
GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR | Fatal error message |
GTK_MESSAGE_OTHER | None of the above |

### enum 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()`.

> Please note that `GTK_BUTTONS_OK`, `GTK_BUTTONS_YES_NO` and `GTK_BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL` are discouraged by the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

#### Members

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 |

## Property Details

### The `“buttons”` property

      “buttons”                  GtkButtonsType

The buttons shown in the message dialog.

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Write / Construct Only

Default value: GTK_BUTTONS_NONE

### The `“image”` property

      “image”                    GtkWidget *

The image for this dialog.

`GtkMessageDialog:image` has been deprecated since version 3.12 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GtkDialog to create dialogs with images

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read / Write

Since: 2.10

### The `“message-area”` property

      “message-area”             GtkWidget *

The GtkBox that corresponds to the message area of this dialog. See `gtk_message_dialog_get_message_area()` for a detailed description of this area.

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read

Since: 2.22

### The `“message-type”` property

      “message-type”             GtkMessageType

The type of the message.

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read / Write / Construct

Default value: GTK_MESSAGE_INFO

### The `“secondary-text”` property

      “secondary-text”           gchar *

The secondary text of the message dialog.

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

Since: 2.10

### The `“secondary-use-markup”` property

      “secondary-use-markup”     gboolean

`TRUE` if the secondary text of the dialog includes Pango markup. See `pango_parse_markup()`.

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 2.10

### The `“text”` property

      “text”                     gchar *

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

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: ""

Since: 2.10

### The `“use-markup”` property

      “use-markup”               gboolean

`TRUE` if the primary text of the dialog includes Pango markup. See `pango_parse_markup()`.

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 2.10

## Style Property Details

### The `“message-border”` style property

      “message-border”           gint

Width of border around the label in the message dialog.

Owner: GtkMessageDialog

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 12

## See Also

GtkDialog