## 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,
                                                 ...);
    GtkWidget*  gtk_message_dialog_new_with_markup
                                                (GtkWindow *parent,
                                                 GtkDialogFlags flags,
                                                 GtkMessageType type,
                                                 GtkButtonsType buttons,
                                                 const gchar *message_format,
                                                 ...);
    void        gtk_message_dialog_set_markup   (GtkMessageDialog *message_dialog,
                                                 const gchar *str);

## 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
      "use-separator"        gboolean             : 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 (dialog, "response",
                               G_CALLBACK (gtk_widget_destroy),
                               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

### 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 an icon indicating the dialog type (error, warning, etc.) and 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.

`parent` : | transient parent, or NULL for none
`flags` : | flags
`type` : | type of message
`buttons` : | set of buttons to use
`message_format` : | `printf()`-style format string, or NULL
`...` : | arguments for `message_format`
Returns : | a new GtkMessageDialog

### 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 an icon indicating the dialog type (error, warning, etc.) and some text which 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.

     GtkWidget *dialog;
     dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new (main_application_window,
                                      GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
                                      GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
                                      GTK_BUTTON_CLOSE,
                                      NULL);
     gtk_message_dialog_set_markup (GTK_MESSAGE_DIALOG (dialog),
                                    markup);

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

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

Since 2.4

## Properties

"`buttons`" (GtkButtonsType : Write / Construct Only) | The buttons shown in the message dialog.
"`message-type`" (GtkMessageType : Read / Write / Construct) | The type of message.

## Style Properties

"`message-border`" (gint : Read) | Width of border around the label and image in the message dialog.
"`use-separator`" (gboolean : Read) | Whether to put a separator between the message dialog's text and the buttons.

## See Also

GtkDialog