MessageDialogRef

public struct MessageDialogRef : MessageDialogProtocol, GWeakCapturing

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 GtkWindow: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: (C Language Example):

 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: (C Language Example):

 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”.

The MessageDialogRef type acts as a lightweight Swift reference to an underlying GtkMessageDialog instance. It exposes methods that can operate on this data type through MessageDialogProtocol conformance. Use MessageDialogRef only as an unowned reference to an existing GtkMessageDialog instance.