Gtk.AboutDialog - Classes - Gtk 3.0 (original) (raw)

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Example

../_images/AboutDialog.png

Subclasses:

None

Methods

Inherited:

Gtk.Dialog (14), Gtk.Window (119), Gtk.Bin (1), Gtk.Container (35), Gtk.Widget (278), GObject.Object (37), Gtk.Buildable (10)

Structs:

Gtk.ContainerClass (5), Gtk.WidgetClass (12), GObject.ObjectClass (5)

class new ()
add_credit_section (section_name, people)
get_artists ()
get_authors ()
get_comments ()
get_copyright ()
get_documenters ()
get_license ()
get_license_type ()
get_logo ()
get_logo_icon_name ()
get_program_name ()
get_translator_credits ()
get_version ()
get_website ()
get_website_label ()
get_wrap_license ()
set_artists (artists)
set_authors (authors)
set_comments (comments)
set_copyright (copyright)
set_documenters (documenters)
set_license (license)
set_license_type (license_type)
set_logo (logo)
set_logo_icon_name (icon_name)
set_program_name (name)
set_translator_credits (translator_credits)
set_version (version)
set_website (website)
set_website_label (website_label)
set_wrap_license (wrap_license)

Virtual Methods

Inherited:

Gtk.Dialog (2), Gtk.Window (5), Gtk.Container (10), Gtk.Widget (82), GObject.Object (7), Gtk.Buildable (10)

do_activate_link (uri)

Properties

Inherited:

Gtk.Dialog (1), Gtk.Window (33), Gtk.Container (3), Gtk.Widget (39)

Name Type Flags Short Description
artists [str] r/w/en List of people who have contributed artwork to the program
authors [str] r/w/en List of authors of the program
comments str r/w/en Comments about the program
copyright str r/w/en Copyright information for the program
documenters [str] r/w/en List of people documenting the program
license str r/w/en The license of the program
license-type Gtk.License r/w/en The license type of the program
logo GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf r/w/en A logo for the about box. If this is not set, it defaults to Gtk.Window.get_default_icon_list()
logo-icon-name str r/w/en A named icon to use as the logo for the about box.
program-name str r/w/en The name of the program. If this is not set, it defaults to GLib.get_application_name()
translator-credits str r/w/en Credits to the translators. This string should be marked as translatable
version str r/w/en The version of the program
website str r/w/en The URL for the link to the website of the program
website-label str r/w/en The label for the link to the website of the program
wrap-license bool r/w/en Whether to wrap the license text.

Style Properties

Inherited:

Gtk.Dialog (4), Gtk.Window (2), Gtk.Widget (17)

Signals

Inherited:

Gtk.Dialog (2), Gtk.Window (5), Gtk.Container (4), Gtk.Widget (69), GObject.Object (1)

Name Short Description
activate-link The signal which gets emitted to activate a URI.

Fields

Inherited:

Gtk.Dialog (2), Gtk.Window (5), Gtk.Container (4), Gtk.Widget (69), GObject.Object (1)

Name Type Access Description
parent_instance Gtk.Dialog r

Class Details

class Gtk.AboutDialog(*args, **kwargs)

Bases:

Gtk.Dialog

Abstract:

No

Structure:

Gtk.AboutDialogClass

The Gtk.AboutDialog offers a simple way to display information about a program like its logo, name, copyright, website and license. It is also possible to give credits to the authors, documenters, translators and artists who have worked on the program. An about dialog is typically opened when the user selects the About option from the Help menu. All parts of the dialog are optional.

About dialogs often contain links and email addresses. Gtk.AboutDialogdisplays these as clickable links. By default, it calls Gtk.show_uri_on_window() when a user clicks one. The behaviour can be overridden with theGtk.AboutDialog ::activate-link signal.

To specify a person with an email address, use a string like “Edgar Allan Poe <edgar\`poe`.com>”. To specify a website with a title, use a string like “GTK+ team http://www.gtk.org”.

To make constructing a Gtk.AboutDialog as convenient as possible, you can use the function gtk_show_about_dialog() which constructs and shows a dialog and keeps it around so that it can be shown again.

Note that GTK+ sets a default title of _("About %s") on the dialog window (where \%s is replaced by the name of the application, but in order to ensure proper translation of the title, applications should set the title property explicitly when constructing a Gtk.AboutDialog, as shown in the following example:

GdkPixbuf *example_logo = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file ("./logo.png", NULL); gtk_show_about_dialog (NULL, "program-name", "ExampleCode", "logo", example_logo, "title", _("About ExampleCode"), NULL);

It is also possible to show a Gtk.AboutDialog like any other Gtk.Dialog, e.g. using Gtk.Dialog.run(). In this case, you might need to know that the “Close” button returns the Gtk.ResponseType.CANCEL response id.

classmethod new()[source]

Returns:

a newly created Gtk.AboutDialog

Return type:

Gtk.Widget

Creates a new Gtk.AboutDialog.

New in version 2.6.

add_credit_section(section_name, people)[source]

Parameters:

Creates a new section in the Credits page.

New in version 3.4.

get_artists()[source]

Returns:

ANone-terminated string array containing the artists. The array is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

[str]

Returns the string which are displayed in the artists tab of the secondary credits dialog.

New in version 2.6.

Returns:

ANone-terminated string array containing the authors. The array is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

[str]

Returns the string which are displayed in the authors tab of the secondary credits dialog.

New in version 2.6.

Returns:

The comments. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the comments string.

New in version 2.6.

get_copyright()[source]

Returns:

The copyright string. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the copyright string.

New in version 2.6.

get_documenters()[source]

Returns:

ANone-terminated string array containing the documenters. The array is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

[str]

Returns the string which are displayed in the documenters tab of the secondary credits dialog.

New in version 2.6.

get_license()[source]

Returns:

The license information. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the license information.

New in version 2.6.

get_license_type()[source]

Returns:

a Gtk.License value

Return type:

Gtk.License

Retrieves the license set using Gtk.AboutDialog.set_license_type()

New in version 3.0.

get_logo()[source]

Returns:

the pixbuf displayed as logo. The pixbuf is owned by the about dialog. If you want to keep a reference to it, you have to call GObject.Object.ref() on it.

Return type:

GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf

Returns the pixbuf displayed as logo in the about dialog.

New in version 2.6.

get_logo_icon_name()[source]

Returns:

the icon name displayed as logo. The string is owned by the dialog. If you want to keep a reference to it, you have to call GLib.strdup() on it.

Return type:

str

Returns the icon name displayed as logo in the about dialog.

New in version 2.6.

get_program_name()[source]

Returns:

The program name. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the program name displayed in the about dialog.

New in version 2.12.

get_translator_credits()[source]

Returns:

The translator credits string. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the translator credits string which is displayed in the translators tab of the secondary credits dialog.

New in version 2.6.

get_version()[source]

Returns:

The version string. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the version string.

New in version 2.6.

get_website()[source]

Returns:

The website URL. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the website URL.

New in version 2.6.

get_website_label()[source]

Returns:

The label used for the website link. The string is owned by the about dialog and must not be modified.

Return type:

str

Returns the label used for the website link.

New in version 2.6.

get_wrap_license()[source]

Returns:

True if the license text is wrapped

Return type:

bool

Returns whether the license text in self is automatically wrapped.

New in version 2.8.

set_artists(artists)[source]

Parameters:

artists ([str]) – a None-terminated array of strings

Sets the strings which are displayed in the artists tab of the secondary credits dialog.

New in version 2.6.

set_authors(authors)[source]

Parameters:

authors ([str]) – a None-terminated array of strings

Sets the strings which are displayed in the authors tab of the secondary credits dialog.

New in version 2.6.

Parameters:

comments (str or None) – a comments string

Sets the comments string to display in the about dialog. This should be a short string of one or two lines.

New in version 2.6.

set_copyright(copyright)[source]

Parameters:

copyright (str or None) – the copyright string

Sets the copyright string to display in the about dialog. This should be a short string of one or two lines.

New in version 2.6.

set_documenters(documenters)[source]

Parameters:

documenters ([str]) – a None-terminated array of strings

Sets the strings which are displayed in the documenters tab of the secondary credits dialog.

New in version 2.6.

set_license(license)[source]

Parameters:

license (str or None) – the license information or None

Sets the license information to be displayed in the secondary license dialog. If license is None, the license button is hidden.

New in version 2.6.

set_license_type(license_type)[source]

Parameters:

license_type (Gtk.License) – the type of license

Sets the license of the application showing the self dialog from a list of known licenses.

This function overrides the license set usingGtk.AboutDialog.set_license().

New in version 3.0.

set_logo(logo)[source]

Parameters:

logo (GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf or None) – a GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf, or None

Sets the pixbuf to be displayed as logo in the about dialog. If it is None, the default window icon set withGtk.Window.set_default_icon() will be used.

New in version 2.6.

set_logo_icon_name(icon_name)[source]

Parameters:

icon_name (str or None) – an icon name, or None

Sets the pixbuf to be displayed as logo in the about dialog. If it is None, the default window icon set withGtk.Window.set_default_icon() will be used.

New in version 2.6.

set_program_name(name)[source]

Parameters:

name (str) – the program name

Sets the name to display in the about dialog. If this is not set, it defaults to GLib.get_application_name().

New in version 2.12.

set_translator_credits(translator_credits)[source]

Parameters:

translator_credits (str or None) – the translator credits

Sets the translator credits string which is displayed in the translators tab of the secondary credits dialog.

The intended use for this string is to display the translator of the language which is currently used in the user interface. Using gettext(), a simple way to achieve that is to mark the string for translation:

GtkWidget *about = gtk_about_dialog_new (); gtk_about_dialog_set_translator_credits (GTK_ABOUT_DIALOG (about), _("translator-credits"));

It is a good idea to use the customary msgid “translator-credits” for this purpose, since translators will already know the purpose of that msgid, and since Gtk.AboutDialog will detect if “translator-credits” is untranslated and hide the tab.

New in version 2.6.

set_version(version)[source]

Parameters:

version (str or None) – the version string

Sets the version string to display in the about dialog.

New in version 2.6.

set_website(website)[source]

Parameters:

website (str or None) – a URL string starting with “http://”

Sets the URL to use for the website link.

New in version 2.6.

set_website_label(website_label)[source]

Parameters:

website_label (str) – the label used for the website link

Sets the label to be used for the website link.

New in version 2.6.

set_wrap_license(wrap_license)[source]

Parameters:

wrap_license (bool) – whether to wrap the license

Sets whether the license text in self is automatically wrapped.

New in version 2.8.

do_activate_link(uri) virtual

Parameters:

uri (str) –

Return type:

bool

Signal Details

Gtk.AboutDialog.signals.activate_link(about_dialog, uri)

Signal Name:

activate-link

Flags:

RUN_LAST

Parameters:

Returns:

True if the link has been activated

Return type:

bool

The signal which gets emitted to activate a URI. Applications may connect to it to override the default behaviour, which is to call Gtk.show_uri_on_window().

New in version 2.24.

Property Details

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.artists

Name:

artists

Type:

[str]

Default Value:

[]

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The people who contributed artwork to the program, as a None-terminated array of strings. Each string may contain email addresses and URLs, which will be displayed as links, see the introduction for more details.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.authors

Name:

authors

Type:

[str]

Default Value:

[]

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The authors of the program, as a None-terminated array of strings. Each string may contain email addresses and URLs, which will be displayed as links, see the introduction for more details.

New in version 2.6.

Name:

comments

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

Comments about the program. This string is displayed in a label in the main dialog, thus it should be a short explanation of the main purpose of the program, not a detailed list of features.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.copyright

Name:

copyright

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

Copyright information for the program.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.documenters

Name:

documenters

Type:

[str]

Default Value:

[]

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The people documenting the program, as a None-terminated array of strings. Each string may contain email addresses and URLs, which will be displayed as links, see the introduction for more details.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.license

Name:

license

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The license of the program. This string is displayed in a text view in a secondary dialog, therefore it is fine to use a long multi-paragraph text. Note that the text is only wrapped in the text view if the “wrap-license” property is set to True; otherwise the text itself must contain the intended linebreaks. When setting this property to a non-None value, theGtk.AboutDialog :license-type property is set to Gtk.License.CUSTOMas a side effect.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.license_type

Name:

license-type

Type:

Gtk.License

Default Value:

Gtk.License.UNKNOWN

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The license of the program, as a value of the Gtk.License enumeration.

The Gtk.AboutDialog will automatically fill out a standard disclaimer and link the user to the appropriate online resource for the license text.

If Gtk.License.UNKNOWN is used, the link used will be the same specified in the Gtk.AboutDialog :website property.

If Gtk.License.CUSTOM is used, the current contents of theGtk.AboutDialog :license property are used.

For any other Gtk.License value, the contents of theGtk.AboutDialog :license property are also set by this property as a side effect.

New in version 3.0.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.logo

Name:

logo

Type:

GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

A logo for the about box. If it is None, the default window icon set with Gtk.Window.set_default_icon() will be used.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.logo_icon_name

Name:

logo-icon-name

Type:

str

Default Value:

'image-missing'

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

A named icon to use as the logo for the about box. This property overrides the Gtk.AboutDialog :logo property.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.program_name

Name:

program-name

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The name of the program. If this is not set, it defaults to GLib.get_application_name().

New in version 2.12.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.translator_credits

Name:

translator-credits

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

Credits to the translators. This string should be marked as translatable. The string may contain email addresses and URLs, which will be displayed as links, see the introduction for more details.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.version

Name:

version

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The version of the program.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.website

Name:

website

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The URL for the link to the website of the program. This should be a string starting with “http://.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.website_label

Name:

website-label

Type:

str

Default Value:

None

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

The label for the link to the website of the program.

New in version 2.6.

Gtk.AboutDialog.props.wrap_license

Name:

wrap-license

Type:

bool

Default Value:

False

Flags:

READABLE, WRITABLE, EXPLICIT_NOTIFY

Whether to wrap the text in the license dialog.

New in version 2.8.