GtkAboutDialog close

[Roland Roberts <roland astrofoto org>]

Okay, I'm a newbie with Gtk.  I'm designing with glade-3.  I've got an 
annoying problem with my about dialog.

I connected the help->about menu item to a callback that pops up the 
dialog.  The "Credits" and "License" buttons work fine.  The "Close" 
button does nothing.  I've seen a bug report in one of the Ubuntu forums 
that claimed this was not a bug, that I have to connect a signal to the 
close button.  Great, but how do I *access* the close button to connect 
it.  In glade, the action area shows up as an internal object with no 
buttons for me to connect to.

Instead, another set of messages I found related to Gtk-perl said I 
should do something like this:

void
on_menu_help_about_activate_cb(GtkObject *object, gpointer user_data)
{
   GtkWidget *window = GTK_ABOUT_DIALOG(gtk_builder_get_object(builder, 
"help_about_dialog"));
   gtk_about_dialog_set_version(window, VERSION);
   gtk_dialog_run(window);
   gtk_widget_hide(window);
}

which effectively makes the dialog modal.  I really don't like modal 
dialogs unless there is a good reason for them to be modal.  And I can't 
see any reason a "help" dialog of any sort should be modal.

How can I get the Close button to just hide the dialog so I don't have 
to do the run/hide thing in the callback?


roland

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