Struct gtk4::AboutDialog

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pub struct AboutDialog { /* private fields */ }
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The AboutDialog offers a simple way to display information about a program.

The shown information includes the programs’ 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.

An example GtkAboutDialog

About dialogs often contain links and email addresses. AboutDialog displays these as clickable links. By default, it calls FileLauncher::launch() when a user clicks one. The behaviour can be overridden with the signal::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 https://www.gtk.org.

To make constructing a AboutDialog as convenient as possible, you can use the function 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 AboutDialog, as shown in the following example:

⚠️ The following code is in c ⚠️

GFile *logo_file = g_file_new_for_path ("./logo.png");
GdkTexture *example_logo = gdk_texture_new_from_file (logo_file, NULL);
g_object_unref (logo_file);

gtk_show_about_dialog (NULL,
                       "program-name", "ExampleCode",
                       "logo", example_logo,
                       "title", _("About ExampleCode"),
                       NULL);

CSS nodes

AboutDialog has a single CSS node with the name window and style class .aboutdialog.

Implements

GtkWindowExt, WidgetExt, glib::ObjectExt, AccessibleExt, BuildableExt, ConstraintTargetExt, NativeExt, RootExt, ShortcutManagerExt, WidgetExtManual, AccessibleExtManual

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Creates a new AboutDialog.

Returns

a newly created AboutDialog

Creates a new builder-pattern struct instance to construct AboutDialog objects.

This method returns an instance of AboutDialogBuilder which can be used to create AboutDialog objects.

Creates a new section in the “Credits” page.

section_name

The name of the section

people

The people who belong to that section

Returns the names of the artists which are displayed in the credits page.

Returns

A NULL-terminated string array containing the artists

Returns the names of the authors which are displayed in the credits page.

Returns

A NULL-terminated string array containing the authors

Returns the comments string.

Returns

The comments

Returns the copyright string.

Returns

The copyright string

Returns the name of the documenters which are displayed in the credits page.

Returns

A NULL-terminated string array containing the documenters

Returns the license information.

Returns

The license information

Retrieves the license type.

Returns

a License value

Returns the paintable displayed as logo in the about dialog.

Returns

the paintable displayed as logo or NULL if the logo is unset or has been set via set_logo_icon_name()

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

Returns

the icon name displayed as logo, or NULL if the logo has been set via set_logo()

Returns the program name displayed in the about dialog.

Returns

The program name

Returns the system information that is shown in the about dialog.

Returns

the system information

Returns the translator credits string which is displayed in the credits page.

Returns

The translator credits string

Returns the version string.

Returns

The version string

Returns the website URL.

Returns

The website URL

Returns the label used for the website link.

Returns

The label used for the website link

Returns whether the license text in the about dialog is automatically wrapped.

Returns

TRUE if the license text is wrapped

Sets the names of the artists to be displayed in the “Credits” page.

artists

the authors of the artwork of the application

Sets the names of the authors which are displayed in the “Credits” page of the about dialog.

authors

the authors of the application

Sets the comments string to display in the about dialog.

This should be a short string of one or two lines.

comments

a comments string

Sets the copyright string to display in the about dialog.

This should be a short string of one or two lines.

the copyright string

Sets the names of the documenters which are displayed in the “Credits” page.

documenters

the authors of the documentation of the application

Sets the license information to be displayed in the about dialog.

If license is NULL, the license page is hidden.

license

the license information

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

This function overrides the license set using set_license().

license_type

the type of license

Sets the logo in the about dialog.

a gdk::Paintable

Sets the icon name to be displayed as logo in the about dialog.

icon_name

an icon name

Sets the name to display in the about dialog.

If name is not set, the string returned by g_get_application_name() is used.

name

the program name

Sets the system information to be displayed in the about dialog.

If system_information is NULL, the system information page is hidden.

See property::AboutDialog::system-information.

system_information

system information

Sets the translator credits string which is displayed in the credits page.

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:

⚠️ The following code is in c ⚠️

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 AboutDialog will detect if “translator-credits” is untranslated and omit translator credits.

translator_credits

the translator credits

Sets the version string to display in the about dialog.

version

the version string

Sets the URL to use for the website link.

website

a URL string starting with http://

Sets the label to be used for the website link.

website_label

the label used for the website link

Sets whether the license text in the about dialog should be automatically wrapped.

wrap_license

whether to wrap the license

Emitted every time a URL is activated.

Applications may connect to it to override the default behaviour, which is to call FileLauncher::launch().

uri

the URI that is activated

Returns

TRUE if the link has been activated

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