Re: any easy way of having a YES/NO dialog return a 1 or 0?

[Gary Kline <kline thought org>]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:46:21PM +0100, David Ne??as wrote:
> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:46:21 +0100
> From: David Ne??as <yeti physics muni cz>
> Subject: Re: any easy way of having a YES/NO dialog return a 1 or 0?
> To: Gary Kline <kline thought org>
> Cc: GTK Devel List <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 01:26:53PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > is there a way of having a YES/NO dialog [that asks a qauestion]
> > return a truth value? i'm looking for something like the macro
> > eprint(...) that James Steward sent in late december.
>
> Use gtk_message_dialog_new() with GTK_BUTTONS_YES_NO buttons type.
> Your boolean is then equal to
>
>     gtk_dialog_run(dialog) == GTK_RESPONSE_YES
>
> (which also runs the dialog but you can, of course, separate the
> execution and comparison).
>
> > if i eventually figured out a similar marcro that included:
> >
> >     GTK_STOCK_YES,1,
> >     GTK_STOCK_NO, 0...
>
> I don't understand what stock item names have to do with this.
>
> Yeti

        this is why i asked the question!

        thank you,

        gary

>

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