Re: Dialog boxes

["Eric M. Monsler" <emonsler beamreachnetworks com>]

Chris Garrett wrote:
>
(snip) 
> window_function {
>         draw widgets in window
>         link callback functions to widgets
>         link dialog callback to the closing of the window
> }
>
> dialog_cb {
>         draw buttons and text
>         link callback to ok button
>         link callback to cancel button
> }

cancel_cb {
        close dialog
}

ok_cb {
        close dialog
        close window
}


The tricky thing, in above, is passing enough state information to ok_cb
to close up the window and the underlying code structure.  To do so you
basically have one g_pointer, specified when doing the linking you refer
to above.