Re: blocking, non-modal dialog?

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Monday 29 August 2005 14:03, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear.  There is only one gtk process in play.
> This is what I mean:
>
> 1 My app's main window is displayed
> 2 The user opens a blocking dialog
> 3 Without closing the dialog box, the user deletes the main
>    window via the window manager ('X')
> 4 Deletion of the main window triggers gtk_main_quit(), but at
>    this point gtk_main_level = 2.
> 5 The blocking dialog remains open
>
> If I set up the dialog with the main window as parent, and
> call gtk_window_set_destroy_with_parent() on the blocking dialog,
> then at step 5 the blocking dialog disappears OK, but it
> seems that gtk_main_level remains at 1, in the background:
> the application is not actually terminated.
>
> My workaround at present is to record whether a blocking dialog is
> open: when the user attempts to delete the main window, I check
> for the presence of such a dialog and if there is one, I raise it
> instead of deleting the main window.

Yes, I see the problem.  Instead of raising the dialog you could of course 
call gtk_main_quit() again to balance up the recursive calls to gtk_main() 
and so terminate the program by coming out of the last GMainContext program 
loop.

Chris