Re: Problem destroying selection-list window

[Evonia Perrez <evonia822 gmail com>]

Yes Jacky, that was exactly it!

The solution was to use "gtk_widget_hide( window )".

Thanks!


On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:36:14, jjacky <i am jack mail gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm guessing this is because you try to destroy the window while it's
> still being used by GTK (to process signals, etc).
> One solution could be to only hide it instead, and destroy it later on.
> (For instance you could destroy it on a handler attached to unmap-event.)
>
> -j
>
>
> On 02/27/2012 10:45 AM, Evonia Perrez wrote:
> > hi,
> > i created a selection-list that pops up when a user presses a button in the
> > main window.
> > Everything works fine until i try to destroy the selection-window after the
> > user clicks an item from the list.  If i do not try to destroy the window,
> > the program does not crash, but the selection-window stays up and the user
> > must force it closed from the window's tab [x].   i would like the
> > selection-list to disappear automatically after the user picks an item,
> > since many programs work this way.
> >
> > I condensed an example in the following program:
> > ...