Re: Gtk+ Modality Problem

[Jamie Wilch <jamie wilch net>]

Atanas Atanasov wrote:
> Excuse me for the beginner question, but I am truly stuck on this
> issue and do not know how to resolve it. My version of gtk is 2.8.18
> under Linux 2.6.15-25-686. I have a simple function that behaves like
> MessageBox under Windows and I am trying to make the messagebox to
> behave truly modal. To test it I created this other window and I call
> the messagebox in the delete event to ask if the user would like to
> exit. I tried:
>
> gtk_window_set_modal (GTK_WINDOW(window), TRUE);
> gtk_grab_add (window);
> gtk_widget_grab_focus (window);
>
> And still I can bring the focus back to my main window. When I
> generate an event (say click on the close button once more) it is not
> processed immediately but exactly after the messagebox exits. This
> approaches my aim, however I would like to force my messagebox into
> receiving all events (or at least keyboard&mouse) so that nothing goes
> to the main window.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Atanas Atanasov
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Don't forget to set the transient window:

gtk_window_set_transient_for(GTK_WINDOW(window),GTK_WINDOW(parent_window));