[Glade-users] Timing out a dialog

[balakkvj at gmail.com (His Majesty)]

Hi Tristan,
                I am not sure how to implement your solution.
I have a function that takes in an argument for use as the message in
the dialog.
Here is the function
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void mainWindow::on_command_show_action(Glib::ustring object)
{
        Glib::ustring message= object;
        Gtk::MessageDialog dialog(*this, message);
        Glib::ustring comment= "Action performed.";
        dialog.set_secondary_text(comment);
        int result = dialog.run();
}
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This function is called when a button is pressed using
initiateCommand->signal_clicked().connect(sigc::bind(sigc::mem_fun(*this,
&mainWindow::on_command_take_action),"!S5101 Fired"));

I have tried using g_timeout_add in main, but there I cannot use
dialog as my user data.
If I put this at the dialog, it does not like MessageDialog,
typecasting mismatch errors (Says cannot cast MessageDialog as void*).

I have also tried g_signal_emit_by_name + timer, but strangely it is
not doing the job at all. I still have to click the dialog.

Any hints as to where I call the g_timeout_add?

Thanks ever so much!

Regards,
B

2009/3/5 Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org>:
> When you launch the dialog initially then use g_timeout_add()
> to register a timeout callback, give it the dialog as user data
> (and hold on to the return value of g_timeout_add()...), then
> quit the dialog/reset the source_id from the callback ... and/or
> when gtk_dialog_run() returns:
>
> if (source_id > 0) source_id = (g_source_remove (source_id), 0);
>
> Cheers,
> ? ? ? ? ? ?-Tristan
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, His Majesty <balakkvj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello people,
> > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? For sometime now, I have been trying to timeout a
> > dialog. To illustrate,
> > imagine you have a button A and when it is clicked, it responds "A clicked".
> > Now, what I am trying to do is close the dialog window without any
> > further click after a pre-determined period, say 2 seconds.
> >
> > Any ideas how to go about it?
> >
> > PS: I am using debian-2.6.26-1 i686 with glade-3
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> >
> > B
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