[Glade-users] Help with dialog box

[paolo at lambrate.inaf.it (Paolo Franzetti)]

Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> Paolo:
>
> Please keep replies on-list, for the benefit of search engines, other 
> readers, etc.; I'm CC'ing this back to the list.
>
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Paolo Franzetti wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > My code is very simple. I have this function:
> >
> >
> > void on_button_pressed() {
> >
> >    dialog=glade_xml_new(/mydir/dialog.glade" , NULL, NULL);
> >    glade_xml_signal_autoconnect(dialog);
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > which is called on a button press in my main window.
> >
> > When I press the button I see the dialog, but it is completely
> > stuck; I cannot do anything in it (press button, open the combo box
> > list, close the dialog).
>
> Then I'm not sure what's going on; the problem is likely somewhere else 
> in your code.  Perhaps something else is currently active as a modal 
> dialog?  If this new dialog is shown in response to a button in a modal 
> dialog, it won't respond to anything unless it's set up to be modal (and 
> it may need to be a transient child of the first dialog - see 
> gtk_window_set_transient_for).  The following program works perfectly 
> with your glade file on my system:
>
> ==== BEGIN SNIP ====
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <glade/glade-xml.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
>
>     GladeXML *dlg = glade_xml_new("dialog.glade", NULL, NULL);
>     glade_xml_signal_autoconnect(dlg);
>
>     gtk_main();
>     return 0;
> }
>
> void on_about_cancel_clicked(GtkButton *button)
> {
>     gtk_main_quit();
> }
> ==== END SNIP ====
>
> - Michael


I have found the problem; the main window was set up to be modal.

Now it works.

Thank you very much,
Paolo