From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: angela.zhu@cs.rice.edu
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GWindow message_dialog
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:58:38 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031.165838.28790725.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AB70E2EF-0B35-44F3-B35D-35E3C6D1619A@cs.rice.edu>
From: Angela Zhu <angela.zhu@cs.rice.edu>
> I want to create a GWindow.message_dialog with the following
> functionality in my GUI:
>
> If I click on a button "reset" or "run",
> it prompt out a message " program is running, please wait..."
> And it disappear after, say, 3 seconds.
> (I want this message here is to let the user know the program is
> responding, but it will take a while before getting the result. )
>
> I am defining a function like this:
>
> let print_sim_wait str win () =
> let my_message = if (str="run") then "Program running, please
> wait ... "
> else "System state resetting, please wait ... "
> in
> let diag = GWindow.message_dialog ~message_type:`INFO
> ~buttons:GWindow.Buttons.ok
> ~message: my_message
> ~destroy_with_parent: true ~parent:win () in
> let res = diag#run () = `OK in
> diag#destroy ()
>
> However, this requires the user to click on "OK" every time to close
> the window.
> Can we set a timeline, such that the window will destroy itself after
> a while, without requiring any action?
Very easy: just add the following line before diag#run.
GMain.Timeout.add ~ms:3000
~callback:(fun () -> diag#activate_default(); false);
Jacques Garrigue
By the way, there is a mailing list devoted to LablGTK,
http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lablgtk
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2007-10-31 5:21 Angela Zhu
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2007-10-31 12:25 ` Re: [Caml-list] " Angela Zhu
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