AboutDialog

The GtkAboutDialog offers a simple way to display information about a program like its logo, name, copyright, website and license. It is also possible to give credits to the authors, documenters, translators and artists who have worked on the program. An about dialog is typically opened when the user selects the About option from the Help menu. All parts of the dialog are optional.

About dialogs often contain links and email addresses. GtkAboutDialog displays these as clickable links. By default, it calls gtk_show_uri_on_window() when a user clicks one. The behaviour can be overridden with the activate-link signal.

To specify a person with an email address, use a string like "Edgar Allan Poe <edgar\poe.com>". To specify a website with a title, use a string like "GTK+ team http://www.gtk.org".

To make constructing a GtkAboutDialog as convenient as possible, you can use the function gtk_show_about_dialog() which constructs and shows a dialog and keeps it around so that it can be shown again.

Note that GTK+ sets a default title of _("About s") on the dialog window (where \s is replaced by the name of the application, but in order to ensure proper translation of the title, applications should set the title property explicitly when constructing a GtkAboutDialog, as shown in the following example:

GdkPixbuf *example_logo = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file ("./logo.png", NULL);
gtk_show_about_dialog (NULL,
"program-name", "ExampleCode",
"logo", example_logo,
"title", _("About ExampleCode"),
NULL);

It is also possible to show a gtk.AboutDialog like any other gtk.Dialog, e.g. using Dialog.run. In this case, you might need to know that the “Close” button returns the GTK_RESPONSE_CANCEL response id.

class AboutDialog : Dialog {

protected

GtkAboutDialog* gtkAboutDialog;

GtkAboutDialog* getAboutDialogStruct(bool transferOwnership);

void* getStruct();

this(GtkAboutDialog* gtkAboutDialog, bool ownedRef);

static GType getType();

this();

void addCreditSection(string sectionName, string[] people);

string[] getArtists();

string[] getAuthors();

string getComments();

string getCopyright();

string[] getDocumenters();

string getLicense();

GtkLicense getLicenseType();

Pixbuf getLogo();

string getLogoIconName();

string getProgramName();

string getTranslatorCredits();

string getVersion();

string getWebsite();

string getWebsiteLabel();

bool getWrapLicense();

void setArtists(string[] artists);

void setAuthors(string[] authors);

void setComments(string comments);

void setCopyright(string copyright);

void setDocumenters(string[] documenters);

void setLicense(string license);

void setLicenseType(GtkLicense licenseType);

void setLogo(Pixbuf logo);

void setLogoIconName(string iconName);

void setProgramName(string name);

void setTranslatorCredits(string translatorCredits);

void setVersion(string version_);

void setWebsite(string website);

void setWebsiteLabel(string websiteLabel);

void setWrapLicense(bool wrapLicense);

gulong addOnActivateLink(bool delegate(string, AboutDialog) dlg, ConnectFlags connectFlags);

}

Constructors

this this(GtkAboutDialog* gtkAboutDialog, bool ownedRef): Sets our main struct and passes it to the parent class.
this this(): Creates a new gtk.AboutDialog

Members

Functions

addCreditSection void addCreditSection(string sectionName, string[] people): Creates a new section in the Credits page.
addOnActivateLink gulong addOnActivateLink(bool delegate(string, AboutDialog) dlg, ConnectFlags connectFlags): The signal which gets emitted to activate a URI. Applications may connect to it to override the default behaviour, which is to call gtk_show_uri_on_window().
getAboutDialogStruct GtkAboutDialog* getAboutDialogStruct(bool transferOwnership): Get the main Gtk struct
getArtists string[] getArtists(): Returns the string which are displayed in the artists tab of the secondary credits dialog.
getAuthors string[] getAuthors(): Returns the string which are displayed in the authors tab of the secondary credits dialog.
getComments string getComments(): Returns the comments string.
getCopyright string getCopyright(): Returns the copyright string.
getDocumenters string[] getDocumenters(): Returns the string which are displayed in the documenters tab of the secondary credits dialog.
getLicense string getLicense(): Returns the license information.
getLicenseType GtkLicense getLicenseType(): Retrieves the license set using AboutDialog.setLicenseType
getLogo Pixbuf getLogo(): Returns the pixbuf displayed as logo in the about dialog.
getLogoIconName string getLogoIconName(): Returns the icon name displayed as logo in the about dialog.
getProgramName string getProgramName(): Returns the program name displayed in the about dialog.
getStruct void* getStruct(): the main Gtk struct as a void*
getTranslatorCredits string getTranslatorCredits(): Returns the translator credits string which is displayed in the translators tab of the secondary credits dialog.
getVersion string getVersion(): Returns the version string.
getWebsite string getWebsite(): Returns the website URL.
getWebsiteLabel string getWebsiteLabel(): Returns the label used for the website link.
getWrapLicense bool getWrapLicense(): Returns whether the license text in about is automatically wrapped.
setArtists void setArtists(string[] artists): Sets the strings which are displayed in the artists tab of the secondary credits dialog.
setAuthors void setAuthors(string[] authors): Sets the strings which are displayed in the authors tab of the secondary credits dialog.
setComments void setComments(string comments): Sets the comments string to display in the about dialog. This should be a short string of one or two lines.
setCopyright void setCopyright(string copyright): Sets the copyright string to display in the about dialog. This should be a short string of one or two lines.
setDocumenters void setDocumenters(string[] documenters): Sets the strings which are displayed in the documenters tab of the secondary credits dialog.
setLicense void setLicense(string license): Sets the license information to be displayed in the secondary license dialog. If license is NULL, the license button is hidden.
setLicenseType void setLicenseType(GtkLicense licenseType): Sets the license of the application showing the about dialog from a list of known licenses.
setLogo void setLogo(Pixbuf logo): Sets the pixbuf to be displayed as logo in the about dialog. If it is NULL, the default window icon set with Window.setDefaultIcon will be used.
setLogoIconName void setLogoIconName(string iconName): Sets the pixbuf to be displayed as logo in the about dialog. If it is NULL, the default window icon set with Window.setDefaultIcon will be used.
setProgramName void setProgramName(string name): Sets the name to display in the about dialog. If this is not set, it defaults to g_get_application_name().
setTranslatorCredits void setTranslatorCredits(string translatorCredits): Sets the translator credits string which is displayed in the translators tab of the secondary credits dialog.
setVersion void setVersion(string version_): Sets the version string to display in the about dialog.
setWebsite void setWebsite(string website): Sets the URL to use for the website link.
setWebsiteLabel void setWebsiteLabel(string websiteLabel): Sets the label to be used for the website link.
setWrapLicense void setWrapLicense(bool wrapLicense): Sets whether the license text in about is automatically wrapped.

Static functions

getType GType getType()

Variables

gtkAboutDialog GtkAboutDialog* gtkAboutDialog;: the main Gtk struct

Inherited Members

From Dialog

gtkDialog GtkDialog* gtkDialog;: the main Gtk struct
getDialogStruct GtkDialog* getDialogStruct(bool transferOwnership): Get the main Gtk struct
getStruct void* getStruct(): the main Gtk struct as a void*
addButton Button addButton(StockID stockID, int responseId)
addButtons void addButtons(string[] buttonsText, ResponseType[] responses)
addButtons void addButtons(StockID[] stockIDs, ResponseType[] responses)
getActionArea HButtonBox getActionArea(): Returns the action area of dialog.
getContentArea VBox getContentArea(): Returns the content area of dialog.
getType GType getType()
addActionWidget void addActionWidget(Widget child, int responseId): Adds an activatable widget to the action area of a gtk.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 action_area field of the gtk.Dialog struct.
addButton Widget addButton(string buttonText, int responseId): Adds a button with the given text and sets things up so that clicking the button will emit the response signal with the given response_id. 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.
getHeaderBar Widget getHeaderBar(): Returns the header bar of dialog. Note that the headerbar is only used by the dialog if the use-header-bar property is TRUE.
getResponseForWidget int getResponseForWidget(Widget widget): Gets the response id of a widget in the action area of a dialog.
getWidgetForResponse Widget getWidgetForResponse(int responseId): Gets the widget button that uses the given response ID in the action area of a dialog.
response void response(int responseId): Emits the response signal with the given response ID. Used to indicate that the user has responded to the dialog in some way; typically either you or Dialog.run will be monitoring the ::response signal and take appropriate action.
run int 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, Dialog.run returns GTK_RESPONSE_NONE Otherwise, it returns the response ID from the ::response signal emission.
setAlternativeButtonOrder void setAlternativeButtonOrder(int[] newOrder): Sets an alternative button order. If the gtk-alternative-button-order setting is set to TRUE, the dialog buttons are reordered according to the order of the response ids in new_order.
setDefaultResponse void setDefaultResponse(int responseId): Sets the last widget in the dialog’s action area with the given response_id as the default widget for the dialog. Pressing “Enter” normally activates the default widget.
setResponseSensitive void setResponseSensitive(int responseId, bool setting): Calls gtk_widget_set_sensitive (widget, setting) for each widget in the dialog’s action area with the given response_id. A convenient way to sensitize/desensitize dialog buttons.
addOnClose gulong addOnClose(void delegate(Dialog) dlg, ConnectFlags connectFlags): The ::close signal is a [keybinding signal]GtkBindingSignal which gets emitted when the user uses a keybinding to close the dialog.
addOnResponse gulong addOnResponse(void delegate(int, Dialog) dlg, ConnectFlags connectFlags): Emitted when an action widget is clicked, the dialog receives a delete event, or the application programmer calls Dialog.response. On a delete event, the response ID is GTK_RESPONSE_DELETE_EVENT Otherwise, it depends on which action widget was clicked.
alternativeDialogButtonOrder bool alternativeDialogButtonOrder(Screen screen): Returns TRUE if dialogs are expected to use an alternative button order on the screen screen. See Dialog.setAlternativeButtonOrder for more details about alternative button order.

gtk AboutDialog classes

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