Re: Popup window for alert

[Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish earthlink net>]

John Coppens wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:55:35 -0600
> Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish earthlink net> wrote:
> 
>> I would like a popup window with a black line on its border in which I
>> can put a label to alert the user to a failure condition.  A Dialog
>> doesn't work because the appearance and disappearance of the window is
>> entirely under program control.  A WINDOW_POPUP doesn't work because it
>> lacks the black line on its border (even when I set decorate).  A
>> WINDOW_TOPLEVEL is almost right, but I would prefer that the destroy
>> button and the window menu button not appear -- not to mention the
>> title bar at the top.  Is there a way to make any of these things
>> disappear?
> 
> You can do everything with a normal window, Jeffrey. Look up the right
> functions, but you can:
> 
> 1) Make de decorations disappear, leaving a clean rectangle.
> 2) Put an image on the background, with the black border you want,
>    making it fill the window entirely,
> 3) Put a label in the center of that window, and enter the text you
>    wish to show.
> 
> You might want to search for the many examples of 'splash screens' with
> GTK available on the 'net.

Thanks to you and Ardhan for the suggestions.  They led me to the following
solution: Get the Gdk_Window.  It has a set_decorations method.  One of the
options is DECOR_BORDER, which draws only a black line around the window --
no title bar.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish