Re: Dialog Question (Help) - solution

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 I found out the solution.
 The solution is to set the FileSelection dialog to be Modal 
 gtk_window_set_modal(dialog).

  Thanks for the help.

HArring.
--- Shaun McCance <shaunm@wolfram.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 14:42, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> >  I created a dialog for Preferences as follows:
> > 
> > dialog = gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons
> >                         ("CDStation2 Preferances", NULL,
> >                         GTK_DIALOG_MODAL | GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT,
> >                         GTK_STOCK_APPLY, GTK_RESPONSE_APPLY,
> GTK_STOCK_CLOSE,
> >                         GTK_RESPONSE_CLOSE, "Reset", 999, NULL);
> >         build_ui();
> >         while(1){
> >                 rt = gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(settings_ui->dialog));
> >                 if(rt == GTK_RESPONSE_APPLY )
> >                         g_warning("Apply changes not implemented.");
> >                 else{
> >                        
> gtk_widget_destroy(GTK_WIDGET(settings_ui->dialog));
> >                         break;
> >                 }
> >         }
> > 
> > 
> >  The dialog displays fine; however, while it is running, I press a button
> to
> > create a GtkFileSelection. The file selection gets displayed; however, I am
> > able to get a response from it no matter where I click.
> 
> That's because you've made your dialog modal.  Modal dialogs generally
> suck, and you shouldn't use them unless you have a really, really good
> reason.
> 
> --
> Shaun
> 
> 
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Harring Figueiredo

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