About modal dialog windows

["Marco Randazzo" <marco randazzo unige it>]

My question in about the differences of behaviour between the modal windows 
created by gtk_message_dialog_new() and gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons(). I was 
looking to gtk-demo, the "Dialog and message boxes" example. In the example, 
a "message dialog" and an "interactive dialog" are generated by clicking the 
appropriate button. In the source code both dialogs are defined 
GTK_DIALOG_MODAL. Now, if another window comes to the front, if i click on 
the main window again, i'm able to reshow again both the main window and the 
interactive dialog. The same doesn't happen on the message dialog. I click 
on the main window but only the main windows comes back to the front. the 
message dialog remains on the background. This sounds strange to me beacuse 
a "modal window" should be "tightly linked"to the main window: if i put it 
on the background or the foreground i expect that both the main window and 
the message window share the same destiny. What's the reason for this 
different behaviour beetween the windows generated by 
gtk_message_dialog_new()  and gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons()? Is there any 
way to have a gtk_message_dialog that comes to the foreground togheter with 
the main window? (it's very annoying to search for a "lost" message window 
under other windows. Moreover, being a modal message dialog, the main 
application seems to be stuck, while in reality, it's only waiting that you 
click on the message dialog that it's still in the background).

Thanks for your help,
Marco