Documentation

This manual documents the NvDialog library, a dialog box library written in C that uses the system API to display its dialogs, making it minimal, dependency-free, portable and easy to use. Instructions on how to build the library can be found in this page. There are also multiple examples to get you started - You can probably copy them in your source and continue with your project.

NvDialog is verified to work on Windows (XP through 11), macOS (Catalina), Debian (10-13), Arch Linux and FreeBSD. Most other Unix-like OSes also work, as long as Gtk3 is installed on the system.

To get started, you should read about NvdDialogBox, which is a simple dialog box with no special functionality in it apart from the very basics. NvDialog also provides the following (among many many others) features as part of its API:

Examples

If you want to check out some code before using this library in your project, this is a simple example: (Taken directly from the GitHub README).

#include <nvdialog/nvdialog.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
     nvd_init();
     NvdDialogBox *dialog = nvd_dialog_box_new("Dialog Title", "Dialog
Message", NVD_DIALOG_SIMPLE); if (!dialog) return -1;
 
     nvd_show_dialog(dialog);
     nvd_free_object(dialog);
 
     return 0;
}

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