Thanks Chris, That's very helpful, and it indeed works.
(So, given the knowledge of what to do, the net does indeed tell exactly which 3 lines to use: one to construct, one to run, one to destroy, as described in http://forum.gtkd.org/groups/GtkD/thread/249/ And this is easy enough to wrap in a function.) (And to ramble on just a little: In the ancient days of NeXTstep, there was a function to do this, NXRunAlertPanel(.....) which was so handy that i kept an abbrev for it in emacs so that it was always available with a couple of keystrokes. That function eventually became NSRunAlertPanel(...) when Apple picked NeXT up. And that new function eventually got deprecated a few years back in favor of something with more lines. :) ) Thanks again for your help. dan On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Chris Moller <mol...@mollerware.com> wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
