Message Box (lv_msgbox)

Pop-up window with an optional header (title and buttons), a content area, and an optional footer with buttons.

Overview

A Message Box is a pop-up built from a content area plus an optional header (title, close button, and extra buttons) and an optional footer with buttons.

Text wraps onto multiple lines and the height adjusts automatically. Setting the height by hand makes the content scrollable instead.

The message box can be modal (blocking clicks on the rest of the screen) or non-modal.

Styling

The message box is built from other Widgets, so you can check these Widgets' documentation for details.

• Content, header, and footer: base widget
• Buttons: Button (lv_button)
• Title and content text: Label (lv_label)

Create a message box

lv_msgbox_create(parent) creates a message box. If parent is NULL the message box will be modal, and will use the Default Display's Top Layer as a parent.

Adding buttons

If you want to add an [OK] or [Cancel] or other buttons for the user to have a choice of responses, add each button using the lv_msgbox_add_footer_button(msgbox, btn_text) function. Calling this function adds a footer (container) if one was not already present, and it returns a pointer to the button created, which can be used to add LV_EVENT_CLICKED (or other) events to detect and act on the user's response.

Footer buttons so added are evenly spaced and centered.

Buttons can also be added to the header if desired with lv_msgbox_add_header_button(msgbox, symbol). Buttons so added are added to the right end of the header.

Getting the parts

The building blocks of the message box can be obtained using the following functions:

lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_get_content(lv_obj_t * msgbox);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_get_title(lv_obj_t * msgbox);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_get_header(lv_obj_t * msgbox);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_get_footer(lv_obj_t * msgbox);

Functions that add something to the message box return a pointer to the newly added Widget:

lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_add_text(lv_obj_t * msgbox, const char * text);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_add_text_fmt(lv_obj_t * obj, const char * fmt, ...);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_add_title(lv_obj_t * msgbox, const char * title);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_add_close_button(lv_obj_t * msgbox);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_add_header_button(lv_obj_t * msgbox, const void * symbol);
lv_obj_t * lv_msgbox_add_footer_button(lv_obj_t * msgbox, const char * text);

Close the message box

lv_msgbox_close(msgbox) closes (deletes) the message box.

lv_msgbox_close_async(msgbox) closes (deletes) the message box asynchronously. This is useful if you want the message box to close the on the next call to lv_timer_handler instead of immediately.

Examples

Simple Message box

Scrolling and styled Message box

Message box with blurred background