Simple, versatile and re-usable entry dialog (sometimes referred to as input dialog) in PyGTK

Question

I am searching for a simple dialog with a text entry widget asking the user for some input. The dialog should be easy to run (like the gtk.MessageDialog variant

Answer 1

There isn't one available in GTK+. You've got two options:

• Create a dialog, pack the Entry and any other content you need (probably the best way in my opinion)
• Retrieve the content_area of the MessageDialog and append an Entry to it.

Something along the lines of:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import gtk

messagedialog = gtk.MessageDialog(parent=None, flags=0, type=gtk.MESSAGE_QUESTION, buttons=gtk.BUTTONS_OK, message_format="Hello")

action_area = messagedialog.get_content_area()

entry = gtk.Entry()
action_area.pack_start(entry)

messagedialog.show_all()
messagedialog.run()
messagedialog.destroy()

Though it does probably need more refinement to get the Entry to display nicely.