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# Package Gtk.Dialog

Dialog boxes are a convenient way to prompt the user for a small amount of input, eg. to display a message, ask a question, or anything else that does not require extensive effort on the user's part.

Gtkada treats a dialog as a window split horizontally. The top section is a Gtk_Vbox, and is where widgets such as a Gtk_Label or a Gtk_Entry should be packed. The second area is known as the action_area. This is generally used for packing buttons into the dialog which may perform functions such as cancel, ok, or apply. The two areas are separated by a Gtk_Hseparator.

If 'dialog' is a newly created dialog, the two primary areas of the window can be accessed using Get_Vbox and Get_Action_Area as can be seen from the example, below.

A 'modal' dialog (that is, one which freezes the rest of the application from user input), can be created by calling Set_Modal on the dialog.

see section Package Gtkada.Dialogs for a higher level dialog interface.

- Gtk.Dialog Widget Hierarchy
- Gtk.Dialog Subprograms

## Widget Hierarchy

    Gtk_Object                    (see section Package Gtk.Object)
       \___ Gtk_Widget            (see section Package Gtk.Widget)
          \___ Gtk_Container      (see section Package Gtk.Container)
             \___ Gtk_Bin         (see section Package Gtk.Bin)
                \___ Gtk_Window   (see section Package Gtk.Window)
                   \___ Gtk_Dialog (see section Package Gtk.Dialog)

## Subprograms

    procedure Gtk_New
      (Dialog             : out    Gtk_Dialog);
| Create a new dialog. Widgets should not be packed into this widget directly, but into the vbox and action_area, as described above.
    function Get_Type              return Gtk.Gtk_Type;
| Return the internal value associated with a Gtk_Dialog.
    function Get_Action_Area
      (Dialog             : access Gtk_Dialog_Record)
       return Gtk.Box.Gtk_Box;
| Return the action area box associated with a Dialog.
    function Get_Vbox
      (Dialog             : access Gtk_Dialog_Record)
       return Gtk.Box.Gtk_Box;
| Return the vertical box associated with a Dialog.

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