Re: Save dialog upon exiting

[Andrew Burton <adb iinet net au>]

On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 05:01, Robert Pyzalski wrote:
> Hello GTK programmers,
> I've got a program that pops up a modal dialog upon exiting asking wether 
> to save changes. The dialog is called using gtk_dialog_run().
> The delete_event handler calls this dialog:
>
> g_signal_connect_swapped(G_OBJECT(main_win), "delete_event", 
> G_CALLBACK(Exit_Program), G_OBJECT(main_win));
>
> static gboolean Exit_Program()
> { if (!Save_Changes_Warning())
>        return TRUE;
>
>    gtk_main_quit();
>    return FALSE;
> }
>
> This works except for one annoyance. If this callback is called from the 
> menu everything works fine. If this is called when a user clicks the main 
> window's "X" or closes the program from the window frame's menu the main 
> program window gets buried underneath all of the other open windows. Does 
> anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Robert P.

Why wouldn't you save the settings automatically, rather than hit the
user with a dialog? One less thing to confuse them with. "Ah, a dialog
box, how do I make it go away, I'll hit no."