Re: Catching "destroy" signals

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Daniel Haude wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > What do you mean "closing from outside"?
>
> I mean that the main application top-level window (A), upon being closed,
> makes another top-level window (B) disappear as well.
>
> I've now managed to build a GDK_DELETE event structure (within the
> "delete_event" callback of A) which I can send to B by feeding it into the
> event loop using gdk_event_put(). This deletes window B good and proper;
> all I now have to do is somehow keep the main loop from getting stopped
> prematurely by the call to gtk_main_quit() which happens in A's "destroy"
> event handler. I'll probably try the following loop:
>
>     while (gtk_events_pending()) {
>         gtk_main_iteration_do();
>     }
>     gtk_main_quit();

I have two toplevel windows, and when one is closed from the window manager
frame, the other also closes. Both windows have this:

  g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(window),"delete_event",G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit),NULL);