Re: Question about modal dialog in gtk application

[Jim George <jimgeorge gmail com>]

You can use gtk_widget_show to bring up your dialog, and then use
gtk_set_transient_for to mark it "modal to only one window", to get
behavior similar to firefox.
-Jim

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, silverburgh
<silverburgh meryl gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Nicola Fontana <ntd entidi it> wrote:
> > Il giorno Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:37:18 -0500
> > silverburgh <silverburgh meryl gmail com> ha scritto:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In my gtk application, I can create 2 windows.
> > > But when I open a dialog in one of my window using gtk_dialog_run(),
> > > why the other window is frozen?
> >
> > Because this is the intended behavior of gtk_dialog_run():
> > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkDialog.html#gtk-dialog-run
> >
> > > How can I code it so that one modal dialog do not freeze the other window?
> >
> > I don't know how to make a modal dialog that does not freeze the
> > other windows but if you want a non-modal dialog you can use
> > gtk_widget_show() instead of gtk_dialog_run().
>
> But how can Firefox on linux implements that?
> If I have a popup alert in 1 Firefox window, it does not freeze the
> other Firefox window and I can scroll up and down in the other window.
>
>
>
> > --
> > Nicola
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