Few questions about AdwAlertDialog customization

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Can’t find in docs how to implement following features:

  1. Sort order for buttons - for example, Quit added with add_response as the last one in code, but it’s going first in list yet
  2. Set vertical only orientation, if that’s possible - found only set_prefer_wide_layout option
  3. Colors for buttons - accent, warning, etc
  4. Can I remove (cleanup) all responses, not one-by-one with remove_response?

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upd. found some answers:

#2 surprised that sort order works but in reverse:

gobject.add_response("quit", "Quit"); // 2 in list
gobject.add_response("create", "Create new profile"); // 1 in list

maybe the bug or just some vector implementation in rust wrapper…
it’s libadwaita v1.6 here

#3 set_response_appearance

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If you’re customizing the dialog, then would AdwDialog be a better choice ?

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  1. That’s on purpose - you’re supposed to put cancel-like buttons on the left, and they will appear last when vertical

  2. That’s not possible because depending on yoru window size it just won’t fit

  3. adw_dialog_set_response_appearance()

  4. No. If you want that, you probably want to create a new dialog instead anyway

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Thanks for replies,

about #4 - just created local keys registry, and clean up one by one before init new preset, here is implementation in Rust.

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No, I mean that usually indicates you’re using dialogs wrong. Why do you need to remove responses in the first place, let alone all of them?

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I’ve created welcome dialog, where user must select profile to continue. I won’t write additional checkbox features in children widget, because implementation with buttons simpler for me as for dev and simpler for user who select option by one click (not radio box + one more click)

Here is how does it looks like

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In other words, I remove some custom (generated) options and keep default controls in one set

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Yes, you absolutely don’t want that. Have a list in your dialog or something similar. This will be an absolute disaster when the window is short, likely will just overflow.

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Agreed, just options above not expected at this moment, later will create separated window for profiles management and maybe skip these options. But for now I want to have visible options if exist (mostly to remind myself I forgot something to cleanup)

anyway, scrollable container would be useful feature for AdwDialog in vertical presentation :wink:

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It is scrollable. The title + subtitle + extra child box, that is. Button aren’t, because you’re misusing the dialog right now.

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Thanks for advice!

Finally I’ve disabled this feature as really strange solution even /tmp. Seems I need additional time for multi-profile implementation, including UI part.