Hi, On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:41 AM, MarLOne <infoseeker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The problem is not just confined to < > but also '&' which needs to be > replaced by &. > > You cannot display these string: > "You can't display string with <hello>" > "You can't display string with &." > > It seems the code behind the Gtk.MessageDialog() expects that the string to > be displayed is a well-formed XML (or XHTML) string.
The shorter Gtk.MessageDialog constructor use the native function gtk_message_dialog_new_with_markup, which expects the string to be Pango markup: https://developer.gnome.org/pygtk/stable/pango-markup-language.html If you don't want that, you can use the other constructor that has an additional use_markup bool: http://docs.go-mono.com/?link=C%3aGtk.MessageDialog.MessageDialog(Gtk.Window%2cGtk.DialogFlags%2cGtk.MessageType%2cGtk.ButtonsType%2cbool%2cstring%2cobject%5b%5d) -- Bertrand _______________________________________________ Gtk-sharp-list maillist - Gtk-sharp-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list