RE: Gtk2::MessageDialog title

[Jeff Hallock <Jhallock WBandA com>]

> > Of course.  Gtk2::MessageDialog isa Gtk2::Dialog isa Gtk2::Window, so just just
> > Gtk2::Window::set_title().  See below.
>
> I did actually look at Gtk2::Dialog but didn't see it there either.  Should have just kept moving up?/down? 
> the >hierarchy.


It is in Gtk2::Window - the parent of Gtk2::Dialog

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkDialog.html#GtkDialog.object-hierarchy



> > But beware that the gnome human interface guidelines say that alert windows
> > should have no title, as the title would normally just duplicate the text of the
> > message...  so, depending on what you're doing, you might actually want to blank
> > out the title.
> >
> > http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-alert.html.en
>
> Thank you very much for this, will check out the rest of the HIG to make sure I'm staying on track.
>
> > For each widget in Gtk2 there is a man page; each man page has a HIERARCHY
> > section, which shows the class ancestry for that type. Or you can look at the C
> > api reference on gtk.org, which has the same info in a different format.
>
> Wasn't aware I could also refer to the C api reference.  Thanks again.

I prefer using the C api reference - http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/index.html.