Re: Keep window on top?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2 cam ac uk>]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:18 -0500, Randy Poe wrote:
> I'm experimenting with a modal dialog and finding that it
> has an unfortunate behavior. There is nothing forcing the
> window to stay on top. As a result, you can click on the
> underlying window to bring it up, but because there is
> an active modal dialog the main window is unresponsive,
> and the user has no clue why.
> 
> This is in Linux.
> 
> Is there a call which will force the window to stay on top?

gtk_window_set_transient_for (window, parent);

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-transient-for


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