Re: Full modal dialog

["Trey Tabner" <ttabner bynari net>]

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Christoph Simon wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is there a way to create a full modal dialog? I'm doing a system
> > critical action and need an answer from the user before he is able to
> > do anything. So before clicking on a button, he should not be able to
> > do anything else, not even in another application.
>
> This you should not do. What if a window is beeing displayed from
> another system that needs urgent attention?
>
> Note that in X-windows is used for multisystem access! This is not like
> MS-Windows at all.
>
> GH

If you wanted to do it for just the application, and not the whole X
environment, just use gtk_window_set_modal() and gdk_window_raise().

-trey

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