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NAME
Gtk2::Dialog - wrapper for GtkDialog
SYNOPSIS
# create a new dialog with some buttons - one stock, one not.
$dialog = Gtk2::Dialog->new ($title, $parent_window, $flags,
'gtk-cancel' => 'cancel',
'Do it' => 'ok');
# create window contents for yourself.
$dialog->get_content_area ()->add ($some_widget);
$dialog->set_default_response ('ok');
# show and interact modally -- blocks until the user
# activates a response.
$response = $dialog->run;
if ($response eq 'ok') {
do_the_stuff ();
}
# activating a response does not destroy the window,
# that's up to you.
$dialog->destroy;
DESCRIPTION
Dialog boxes are a convenient way to prompt the user for a small amount of input, eg. 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 Gtk2::VBox, and is
where widgets such as a Gtk2::Label or a Gtk2::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. The two areas are separated by
a Gtk2::HSeparator.
GtkDialog boxes are created with a call to "Gtk2::Dialog->new". The multi-argument form
(and its alias, "new_with_buttons" is recommended; it allows you to set the dialog title,
some convenient flags, and add simple buttons all in one go.
If $dialog is a newly created dialog, the two primary areas of the window can be accessed
as "$dialog->get_content_area ()" and "$dialog->get_action_area ()", as can be seen from
the example, below.
A 'modal' dialog (that is, one which freezes the rest of the application from user input),
can be created by calling the Gtk2::Window method "set_modal" on the dialog. You can also
pass the 'modal' flag to "new".
If you add buttons to GtkDialog using "new", "new_with_buttons", "add_button",
"add_buttons", or "add_action_widget", clicking the button will emit a signal called
"response" with a response ID that you specified. GTK+ will never assign a meaning to
positive response IDs; these are entirely user-defined. But for convenience, you can use
the response IDs in the Gtk2::ResponseType enumeration. If a dialog receives a delete
event, the "response" signal will be emitted with a response ID of 'delete-event'.
If you want to block waiting for a dialog to return before returning control flow to your
code, you can call "$dialog->run". This function enters a recursive main loop and waits
for the user to respond to the dialog, returning the response ID corresponding to the
button the user clicked.
For the simple dialog in the following example, in reality you'd probably use
Gtk2::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.
# Function to open a dialog box displaying the message provided.
sub quick_message {
my $message = shift;
my $dialog = Gtk2::Dialog->new ('Message', $main_app_window,
'destroy-with-parent',
'gtk-ok' => 'none');
my $label = Gtk2::Label->new (message);
$dialog->get_content_area ()->add ($label);
# Ensure that the dialog box is destroyed when the user responds.
$dialog->signal_connect (response => sub { $_[0]->destroy });
$dialog->show_all;
}
Delete, Close and Destroy
In the default keybindings the "Esc" key calls the "close" action signal. The default in
that signal is to synthesise a "delete-event" like a window manager close would do.
A delete-event first runs the "response" signal with ID "delete-event", but the handler
there can't influence the default destroy behaviour of the "delete-event" signal. See
Gtk2::Window for notes on destroy vs hide.
If you add your own "Close" button to the dialog, perhaps using the builtin "close"
response ID, you must make your "response" signal handler do whatever's needed for
closing. Often a good thing is just to run the "close" action signal the same as the Esc
key.
sub my_response_handler {
my ($dialog, $response) = @_;
if ($response eq 'close') {
$self->signal_emit ('close');
} elsif ...
}
HIERARCHY
Glib::Object
+----Glib::InitiallyUnowned
+----Gtk2::Object
+----Gtk2::Widget
+----Gtk2::Container
+----Gtk2::Bin
+----Gtk2::Window
+----Gtk2::Dialog
INTERFACES
Glib::Object::_Unregistered::AtkImplementorIface
Gtk2::Buildable
METHODS
$widget = Gtk2::Dialog->new;
$widget = Gtk2::Dialog->new ($title, $parent, $flags, ...)
• ... (list) of button-text => response-id pairs.
• $flags (Gtk2::DialogFlags) interesting properties
• $parent (Gtk2::Window or undef) make the new dialog transient for this window
• $title (string) window title
The multi-argument form takes the same list of text => response-id pairs as
"$dialog->add_buttons". Do not pack widgets directly into the window; add them to
"$dialog->get_content_area ()".
Here's a simple example:
$dialog = Gtk2::Dialog->new ('A cool dialog',
$main_app_window,
[qw/modal destroy-with-parent/],
'gtk-ok' => 'accept',
'gtk-cancel' => 'reject');
$widget = Gtk2::Dialog->new_with_buttons ($title, $parent, $flags, ...)
• ... (list) of button-text => response-id pairs.
Alias for the multi-argument version of "Gtk2::Dialog->new".
widget = $dialog->get_action_area
$dialog->add_action_widget ($child, $response_id)
• $child (Gtk2::Widget)
• $response_id (Gtk2::ResponseType)
widget = $dialog->add_button ($button_text, $response_id)
• $button_text (string) may be arbitrary text with mnenonics, or stock ids
• $response_id (Gtk2::ResponseType)
Returns the created button.
$dialog->add_buttons (...)
• ... (list) of button-text => response-id pairs
Like calling "$dialog->add_button" repeatedly, except you don't get the created widgets
back. The buttons go from left to right, so the first button added will be the left-most
one.
$dialog->set_alternative_button_order (...)
• ... (list)
Since: gtk+ 2.6
widget = $dialog->get_content_area
$dialog->set_default_response ($response_id)
• $response_id (Gtk2::ResponseType)
boolean = $dialog->get_has_separator
$dialog->set_has_separator ($setting)
• $setting (boolean)
$dialog->response ($response_id)
• $response_id (Gtk2::ResponseType)
Emit the response signal, as though the user had clicked on the button with $response_id.
scalar = $dialog->get_response_for_widget ($widget)
• $widget (Gtk2::Widget)
Since: gtk+ 2.8
$dialog->set_response_sensitive ($response_id, $setting)
• $response_id (Gtk2::ResponseType)
• $setting (boolean)
Enable or disable an action button by its $response_id.
$responsetype = $dialog->run
Blocks in a recursive main loop until the dialog either emits the response signal, or is
destroyed. If the dialog is destroyed during the call to "$dialog->run", the function
returns 'GTK_RESPONSE_NONE' ('none'). Otherwise, it returns the response ID from the
"response" signal emission. Before entering the recursive main loop, "$dialog->run" calls
"$widget->show" on $dialog for you. Note that you still need to show any children of the
dialog yourself.
During "run", the default behavior of "delete_event" is disabled; if the dialog receives
"delete_event", it will not be destroyed as windows usually are, and "run" will return
'delete-event'. Also, during "run" the dialog will be modal. You can force "run" to
return at any time by calling "$dialog->response" to emit the "response" signal.
Destroying the dialog during "run" is a very bad idea, because your post-run code won't
know whether the dialog was destroyed or not.
After "run" returns, you are responsible for hiding or destroying the dialog if you wish
to do so.
Typical usage of this function might be:
if ('accept' eq $dialog->run) {
do_application_specific_something ();
} else {
do_nothing_since_dialog_was_cancelled ();
}
$dialog->destroy;
widget = $dialog->get_widget_for_response ($response_id)
• $response_id (Gtk2::ResponseType)
Since: gtk+ 2.20
PROPERTIES
'has-separator' (boolean : default false : readable / writable / private)
The dialog has a separator bar above its buttons
STYLE PROPERTIES
'action-area-border' (integer : default 5 : readable / private)
Width of border around the button area at the bottom of the dialog
'button-spacing' (integer : default 6 : readable / private)
Spacing between buttons
'content-area-border' (integer : default 2 : readable / private)
Width of border around the main dialog area
'content-area-spacing' (integer : default 0 : readable / private)
Spacing between elements of the main dialog area
SIGNALS
close (Gtk2::Dialog)
response (Gtk2::Dialog, integer)
Note that currently in a Perl subclass of "Gtk2::Dialog" a class closure, ie. class
default signal handler, for the "response" signal will be called with the response ID just
as an integer, it's not turned into an enum string like "ok" the way a handler setup with
"signal_connect" receives.
Hopefully this will change in the future, so don't count on it. In the interim the
easiest thing to do is install your default handler in "INIT_INSTANCE" with a
"signal_connect". (The subtleties of what order handlers are called in will differ, but
often that doesn't matter.)
ENUMS AND FLAGS
flags Gtk2::DialogFlags
• 'modal' / 'GTK_DIALOG_MODAL'
• 'destroy-with-parent' / 'GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT'
• 'no-separator' / 'GTK_DIALOG_NO_SEPARATOR'
enum Gtk2::ResponseType
The response type is somewhat abnormal as far as gtk2-perl enums go. In C, this enum
lists named, predefined integer values for a field that is other composed of whatever
integer values you like. In Perl, we allow this to be either one of the string constants
listed here or any positive integer value. For example, 'ok', 'cancel', 4, and 42 are all
valid response ids. You cannot use arbitrary string values, they must be integers. Be
careful, because unknown string values tend to be mapped to 0.
• 'none' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_NONE'
• 'reject' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_REJECT'
• 'accept' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT'
• 'delete-event' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_DELETE_EVENT'
• 'ok' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_OK'
• 'cancel' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_CANCEL'
• 'close' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_CLOSE'
• 'yes' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_YES'
• 'no' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_NO'
• 'apply' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_APPLY'
• 'help' / 'GTK_RESPONSE_HELP'
SEE ALSO
Gtk2, Glib::Object, Glib::InitiallyUnowned, Gtk2::Object, Gtk2::Widget, Gtk2::Container,
Gtk2::Bin, Gtk2::Window
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2011 by the gtk2-perl team.
This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Gtk2 for a full notice.