Gtk2::MessageDialog

  #
  # A modal dialog.  Note that the message is a printf-style format.
  #
  $dialog = Gtk2::MessageDialog->new ($main_application_window,
                                      'destroy-with-parent',
                                      'question', # message type
                                      'yes-no', # which set of buttons?
                                      "Pay me $%.2f?", $amount);
  $response = $dialog->run;
  if ($response eq 'yes') {
      send_bill ();
  }
  $dialog->destroy;

  #
  # A non-modal dialog.
  #
  $dialog = Gtk2::MessageDialog->new ($main_application_window,
                                      'destroy-with-parent',
                                      'question', # message type
                                      'ok-cancel', # which set of buttons?
                                      "Self-destruct now?");
  # react whenever the user responds.
  $dialog->signal_connect (response => sub {
             my ($self, $response) = @_;
             if ($response eq 'ok') {
                     do_the_thing ();
             }
             $self->destroy;
  });

Gtk2::MessageDialog is 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 Gtk2::MessageDialog from Gtk2::Dialog without too much effort, but Gtk2::MessageDialog saves typing and helps create a consistent look and feel for your application.

The easiest way to do a modal message dialog is to use CW$dialog->run, which automatically makes your dialog modal and waits for the user to respond to it. You can also pass in the GTK_DIALOG_MODAL flag when creating the MessageDialog.

  Glib::Object
  +----Glib::Object::_Unregistered::GInitiallyUnowned
       +----Gtk2::Object
            +----Gtk2::Widget
                 +----Gtk2::Container
                      +----Gtk2::Bin
                           +----Gtk2::Window
                                +----Gtk2::Dialog
                                     +----Gtk2::MessageDialog

  Gtk2::Atk::ImplementorIface

* ... (list)

Like CWnew, but allowing Pango markup tags in the message. Note that this version is not variadic.

* ... (list)

'buttons' (Gtk2::ButtonsType : writable / construct-only / private)

The buttons shown in the message dialog

'message-type' (Gtk2::MessageType : readable / writable / construct / private)

The type of message

* 'none' / 'GTK_BUTTONS_NONE'

* 'ok' / 'GTK_BUTTONS_OK'

* 'close' / 'GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE'

* 'cancel' / 'GTK_BUTTONS_CANCEL'

* 'yes-no' / 'GTK_BUTTONS_YES_NO'

* 'ok-cancel' / 'GTK_BUTTONS_OK_CANCEL'

* 'modal' / 'GTK_DIALOG_MODAL'

* 'destroy-with-parent' / 'GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT'

* 'no-separator' / 'GTK_DIALOG_NO_SEPARATOR'

* 'info' / 'GTK_MESSAGE_INFO'

* 'warning' / 'GTK_MESSAGE_WARNING'

* 'question' / 'GTK_MESSAGE_QUESTION'

* 'error' / 'GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR'

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