Re: Possibly Stupid question: Blocking events to parent window

[JParker coinstar com]

G'Day !

It sounds like you are creating a Modal dialog window.  This is done with the
function  "gtk_grab_add ( )"  ...

void CreateDialogWindow ( )
{
  dialog_window = gtk_dialog_new ( );

  gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (dialog_window), "destroy",
                                GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (ClosingDialog),
                                &dialog_window);

  /* lots of code to make it do something useful and be pretty to look at  */

  gtk_grab_add (dialog_window);
}

You release control by calling the function "gtk_grab_remove ( )"  from the call
back function mapped to something on your dialog box (ie "OK" button.

void ClosingDialog (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
{
    gtk_grab_remove (GTK_WIDGET (widget));
}

cheers,
Jim Parker

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than that !!!


                                                                                                              
                     
                    Jack Challen                                                                              
                     
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First of all, sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but I have
searched the mailing list archives, plus all the documentation and
references I could find.

           I'm bashing out a program (surprise) and I have a button that creates
a
child window by using a callback function - the thing is, I want to
ignore all input to any other window except the newly created child
window, until the user performs some abitrary action in the child (like
filling in a bunch of text boxes). I could post some source code, but my
current stuff is fairly convoluted (read "absolutely unreadable"), and I
didn't think it was worth posting for such a (hopefully) simple
question.

           I've got Havoc Pennington's book on order, which'll take about 2
weeks
to get here, and it feels like I'm banging my head against a brick wall
- I imagine I am, and there's a really easy way to do it.

           Many thanks in advance.
           Jack Challen

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