Re: javascript alert function analog in gtk, probably some kind of modal dialog, but looking for a quickie

[Chris Moller <moller mollerware com>]

Take a look at GtkMessageDialog.  Three lines rather than one, but it 
seems to do what you describe.

On 07/31/16 16:11, Dan Hitt wrote:
> For front end web development, javascript provides a very handy alert(
> ) function.
>
> alert("this is a message") just pops up a message for the user to click "ok" on.
>
> So it's a handy one-liner to stick (temporarily or not) into a piece of code.
>
> So i'm wondering if there's a one-line, one-argument gtk equivalent function.
>
> My simple-minded googling hasn't uncovered one, but i may just be too
> dense to choose the right combination of search terms.
>
> Of course if no such function exists, i don't think it would be too
> hard to gin one up.
>
> And i suppose that i will, just in case, but if one exists then i
> would certainly prefer using it because there's probably a lot of
> details to get wrong, or produce surprising behavior.
>
> TIA for any info!
>
> dan
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