Re: how to prevent multiple instances of the same window.

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:00:38AM -0700, mohan kumar wrote:
> I have developed a gtk application having several
> dialog windows. One of the dialogs is the About
> dialog. Whenever i click the about menu item, a new
> instance of the about dialog pops up. Is there a easy
> gtk api, which restricts the creation of multilple
> instances of the same dialog.

void
show_about_dialog(...)
{
    static GtkWidget *dialog = NULL;
    ...
    if (dialog) {
        gtk_window_present(GTK_WINDOW(dialog));
        return;
    }
    ...
    dialog = ...
    g_object_add_weak_pointer(G_OBJECT(dialog), &dialog);
    ...
}

Yeti


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