RE: Closing Main window with out Closing the child window

[Wallace Owen <wallace owen L-3Com com>]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:16 -0500, Prabhakar Muthuswamy wrote:
> Thanks Yeti, How do I destroy first the firstwindow when I don't have
> that pointer when I pop up the second window? By default glade creates
> the first window pointer in main.c. In my callbacks.c I don't have
> access to this pointer to destroy that window.
>
> Secondly if I have more than 3 windows with each having OK and Cancel
> button how do I differentiate between them? All these buttons have same
> signal on_ok_button_clicked and on_cancel_button_clicked. They are
> redefined in callbacks.c. 

What you ought to do to get familiar with Gtk is to read the tutorial
that's at http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ Once you go through the first
third of the tutorial you will know the answers to all the questions you
have raised.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Necas (Yeti) [mailto:yeti physics muni cz] 
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:12 AM
> To: Prabhakar Muthuswamy
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Closing Main window with out Closing the child window
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:51:03AM -0500, Prabhakar Muthuswamy wrote:
> >      I have a main window (which is a login screen) after I am
> > authenticated this main window should go away and other window should
> > pop up. As of now I am able to pop the second window but the main
> window
> > is hiding behind the second window. Is there an API which would allow
> me
> > to close the main window with out closing the entire application?
>
> Closing any window does not terminate the application,
> unless you set it up so.  And there is no main window (well,
> your app perhaps has a main window, but that concept is
> introduced by the app, not by Gtk+).
>
> So, do not terminate the app in the "destroy" callback of
> the window, or disconnect the callback, or just stop doing
> the thing that makes your app quit.  Then you can simply
> destroy the first window when you show the second one.
>
> Yeti
>
>
> --
> That's enough.
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