[Glade-users] {Glade-Users] Adding a Dialog window to the top-level window

[damon ximian com (Damon Chaplin)]

On 13 Aug 2001 13:37:01 -0700, Paul Danielson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> <<< Newbie alert >>>
>
> I have a top-level window created in Glade that starts a variable number 
> of pthreads...
>
> One of those threads creates a dialog window (created as a "Dialog" type 
> in Glade, rather than a top-level dialog)  when a certain file is found 
> to be missing on my system.  
>
> The problem is that when my dialog thread opens the dialog, it happens 
> to open the dialog window BEHIND (and before?) the main window.  I 
> assume there is a timing issue here, probably that the dialog is 
> realized (mapped?) before the main (top-level) window is, but I am 
> unsure about how to proceed...
>
> I thought I could create the dialog as a child of the main window, but 
> apparently there is no way I can do that in Glade (IS there????) .
>
> Any help, or a pointer in the right direction to do my own footwork 
> would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

Glade can't help here.

But you can call gtk_window_set_transient_for() to make sure the dialog
stays in from of the main window.

Damon