Re: blocking operation

[Peter Wurmsdobler <peterw cetehor com>]

hi,

>    A modal window is a window that, while being displayed, blocks all
> other widgts that don't belong to that window, so the user can't interact
> with any other part of the interface of the same program.
So this is actually what I need, or at least I can solve
the problem. Do I need the the gnome-libraries for this, too?

Silly question: Why do I need GNOME within an application?
Isn't there a simpler solution, like a blocking semaphore or
a signal the function can wait for?

peterw
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