GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

Dialog boxes are a convenient way to prompt the user for a small amount of input, e.g. to display a message, ask a question, or anything else that does not require extensive effort on the user’s part.

GTK+ treats a dialog as a window split vertically. The top section is a Box, and is where widgets such as a Label or a Entry should be packed. The bottom area is known as the “action area”. This is generally used for packing buttons into the dialog which may perform functions such as cancel, ok, or apply.

Dialog boxes are created with a call to dialogNew or gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons(). gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons() is recommended; it allows you to set the dialog title, some convenient flags, and add simple buttons.

A “modal” dialog (that is, one which freezes the rest of the application from user input), can be created by calling windowSetModal on the dialog. Use the GTK_WINDOW() macro to cast the widget returned from dialogNew into a Window. When using gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons() you can also pass the GTK_DIALOG_MODAL flag to make a dialog modal.

If you add buttons to Dialog using gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons(), dialogAddButton, gtk_dialog_add_buttons(), or dialogAddActionWidget, clicking the button will emit a signal called response with a response ID that you specified. GTK+ will never assign a meaning to positive response IDs; these are entirely user-defined. But for convenience, you can use the response IDs in the ResponseType enumeration (these all have values less than zero). If a dialog receives a delete event, the response signal will be emitted with a response ID of GTK_RESPONSE_DELETE_EVENT.

For the simple dialog in the following example, in reality you’d probably use MessageDialog to save yourself some effort. But you’d need to create the dialog contents manually if you had more than a simple message in the dialog.

An example for simple GtkDialog usage:

C code

// Function to open a dialog box with a message
void
quick_message (GtkWindow *parent, gchar *message)
{
 GtkWidget *dialog, *label, *content_area;
 GtkDialogFlags flags;

 // Create the widgets
 flags = GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT;
 dialog = gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons ("Message",
                                       parent,
                                       flags,
                                       _("_OK"),
                                       GTK_RESPONSE_NONE,
                                       NULL);
 content_area = gtk_dialog_get_content_area (GTK_DIALOG (dialog));
 label = gtk_label_new (message);

 // Ensure that the dialog box is destroyed when the user responds

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

 // Add the label, and show everything we’ve added

 gtk_box_append (GTK_BOX (content_area), label);
 gtk_widget_show (dialog);
}

GtkDialog as GtkBuildable

The GtkDialog implementation of the Buildable interface exposes the contentArea and actionArea as internal children with the names “content_area” and “action_area”.

GtkDialog supports a custom <action-widgets> element, which can contain multiple <action-widget> elements. The “response” attribute specifies a numeric response, and the content of the element is the id of widget (which should be a child of the dialogs actionArea). To mark a response as default, set the “default“ attribute of the <action-widget> element to true.

GtkDialog supports adding action widgets by specifying “action“ as the “type“ attribute of a <child> element. The widget will be added either to the action area or the headerbar of the dialog, depending on the “use-header-bar“ property. The response id has to be associated with the action widget using the <action-widgets> element.

An example of a Dialog UI definition fragment: > >class="GtkDialog" id="dialog1" > type="action" > class="GtkButton" id="button_cancel"/ > /child > type="action" > class="GtkButton" id="button_ok" > /object > /child > action-widgets > response="cancel"button_cancel/action-widget > response="ok" default="true"button_ok/action-widget > /action-widgets >/object

Exported types

newtype Dialog

Memory-managed wrapper type.

Constructors

Dialog (ManagedPtr Dialog)

Instances

Eq Dialog

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

Methods

(==) :: Dialog -> Dialog -> Bool

(/=) :: Dialog -> Dialog -> Bool

IsGValue Dialog

Convert Dialog to and from GValue with toGValue and fromGValue.

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

Methods

toGValue :: Dialog -> IO GValue

fromGValue :: GValue -> IO Dialog

ManagedPtrNewtype Dialog

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

Methods

toManagedPtr :: Dialog -> ManagedPtr Dialog

TypedObject Dialog

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

Methods

glibType :: IO GType

GObject Dialog

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

HasParentTypes Dialog

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

type ParentTypes Dialog

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

type ParentTypes Dialog = '[Window, Widget, Object, ImplementorIface, Buildable, ConstraintTarget, Native, Root, ShortcutManager]

class (GObject o, IsDescendantOf Dialog o) => IsDialog o

Type class for types which can be safely cast to Dialog, for instance with toDialog.

Instances

(GObject o, IsDescendantOf Dialog o) => IsDialog o

Defined in GI.Gtk.Objects.Dialog

toDialog :: (MonadIO m, IsDialog o) => o -> m Dialog

Cast to Dialog, for types for which this is known to be safe. For general casts, use castTo.

Methods

Overloaded methods

addActionWidget

dialogAddActionWidget

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a, IsWidget b)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> b

child: an activatable widget

-> Int32

responseId: response ID for child

-> m ()

Adds an activatable widget to the action area of a Dialog, connecting a signal handler that will emit the response signal on the dialog when the widget is activated. The widget is appended to the end of the dialog’s action area. If you want to add a non-activatable widget, simply pack it into the actionArea field of the Dialog struct.

addButton

dialogAddButton

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> Text

buttonText: text of button

-> Int32

responseId: response ID for the button

-> m Widget

Returns: the Button widget that was added

Adds a button with the given text and sets things up so that clicking the button will emit the response signal with the given responseId. The button is appended to the end of the dialog’s action area. The button widget is returned, but usually you don’t need it.

getContentArea

dialogGetContentArea

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> m Box

Returns: the content area Box.

Returns the content area of dialog.

getHeaderBar

dialogGetHeaderBar

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> m HeaderBar

Returns: the header bar

Returns the header bar of dialog. Note that the headerbar is only used by the dialog if the Dialog:use-header-bar property is True.

getResponseForWidget

dialogGetResponseForWidget

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a, IsWidget b)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> b

widget: a widget in the action area of dialog

-> m Int32

Returns: the response id of widget, or ResponseTypeNone if widget doesn’t have a response id set.

Gets the response id of a widget in the action area of a dialog.

getWidgetForResponse

dialogGetWidgetForResponse

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> Int32

responseId: the response ID used by the dialog widget

-> m (Maybe Widget)

Returns: the widget button that uses the given responseId, or Nothing.

Gets the widget button that uses the given response ID in the action area of a dialog.

new

dialogNew

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m)

=> m Dialog

Returns: the new dialog as a Widget

Creates a new dialog box.

Widgets should not be packed into this Window directly, but into the contentArea and actionArea, as described above.

response

dialogResponse

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> Int32

responseId: response ID

-> m ()

Emits the response signal with the given response ID.

Used to indicate that the user has responded to the dialog in some way.

setDefaultResponse

dialogSetDefaultResponse

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> Int32

responseId: a response ID

-> m ()

Sets the last widget in the dialog’s action area with the given responseId as the default widget for the dialog. Pressing “Enter” normally activates the default widget.

setResponseSensitive

dialogSetResponseSensitive

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsDialog a)

=> a

dialog: a Dialog

-> Int32

responseId: a response ID

-> Bool

setting: True for sensitive

-> m ()

Calls gtk_widget_set_sensitive (widget, @setting) for each widget in the dialog’s action area with the given responseId. A convenient way to sensitize/desensitize dialog buttons.

Properties

useHeaderBar

True if the dialog uses a HeaderBar for action buttons instead of the action-area.

For technical reasons, this property is declared as an integer property, but you should only set it to True or False.

constructDialogUseHeaderBar :: (IsDialog o, MonadIO m) => Int32 -> m (GValueConstruct o)

Construct a GValueConstruct with valid value for the “use-header-bar” property. This is rarely needed directly, but it is used by new.

getDialogUseHeaderBar :: (MonadIO m, IsDialog o) => o -> m Int32

Get the value of the “use-header-bar” property. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

get dialog #useHeaderBar

Signals

close

type C_DialogCloseCallback = Ptr () -> Ptr () -> IO ()

Type for the callback on the (unwrapped) C side.

type DialogCloseCallback = IO ()

The close signal is a [keybinding signal][GtkBindingSignal] which gets emitted when the user uses a keybinding to close the dialog.

The default binding for this signal is the Escape key.

afterDialogClose :: (IsDialog a, MonadIO m) => a -> DialogCloseCallback -> m SignalHandlerId

Connect a signal handler for the close signal, to be run after the default handler. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

after dialog #close callback

genClosure_DialogClose :: MonadIO m => DialogCloseCallback -> m (GClosure C_DialogCloseCallback)

Wrap the callback into a GClosure.

mk_DialogCloseCallback :: C_DialogCloseCallback -> IO (FunPtr C_DialogCloseCallback)

Generate a function pointer callable from C code, from a C_DialogCloseCallback.

noDialogCloseCallback :: Maybe DialogCloseCallback

A convenience synonym for Nothing :: Maybe DialogCloseCallback.

onDialogClose :: (IsDialog a, MonadIO m) => a -> DialogCloseCallback -> m SignalHandlerId

Connect a signal handler for the close signal, to be run before the default handler. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

on dialog #close callback

wrap_DialogCloseCallback :: DialogCloseCallback -> C_DialogCloseCallback

Wrap a DialogCloseCallback into a C_DialogCloseCallback.

response

type C_DialogResponseCallback = Ptr () -> Int32 -> Ptr () -> IO ()

Type for the callback on the (unwrapped) C side.

type DialogResponseCallback

Arguments

 = Int32

responseId: the response ID

-> IO ()

Emitted when an action widget is clicked, the dialog receives a delete event, or the application programmer calls dialogResponse. On a delete event, the response ID is GTK_RESPONSE_DELETE_EVENT. Otherwise, it depends on which action widget was clicked.

afterDialogResponse :: (IsDialog a, MonadIO m) => a -> DialogResponseCallback -> m SignalHandlerId

Connect a signal handler for the response signal, to be run after the default handler. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

after dialog #response callback

genClosure_DialogResponse :: MonadIO m => DialogResponseCallback -> m (GClosure C_DialogResponseCallback)

Wrap the callback into a GClosure.

mk_DialogResponseCallback :: C_DialogResponseCallback -> IO (FunPtr C_DialogResponseCallback)

Generate a function pointer callable from C code, from a C_DialogResponseCallback.

noDialogResponseCallback :: Maybe DialogResponseCallback

A convenience synonym for Nothing :: Maybe DialogResponseCallback.

onDialogResponse :: (IsDialog a, MonadIO m) => a -> DialogResponseCallback -> m SignalHandlerId

Connect a signal handler for the response signal, to be run before the default handler. When overloading is enabled, this is equivalent to

on dialog #response callback

wrap_DialogResponseCallback :: DialogResponseCallback -> C_DialogResponseCallback

Wrap a DialogResponseCallback into a C_DialogResponseCallback.