Re: Help with modal dialog

[Marius Gedminas <marius gedmin as>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:07:50AM -0400, Matt Postiff wrote:
> I have a working dialog that displays a system log file in "real time"
> in my gtk2 Windows/Linux app. It is modal.
>
> What I want to do is make it non-modal so it can float off to the side
> of my app and always be visible while I work in the app.
>
> I have tried to gtk_window_set_modal to FALSE and also set <property
> name="modal">False</property> in the gtkbuilder xml.
>
> A snippet of the code and xml is at http://pastebin.com/mACPZP85
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thank you.

How are you displaying that dialog?  Your code snipped doesn't include
that part.  Make sure you don't use gtk_dialog_run().  Use
gtk_widget_show() or gtk_widget_show_all() (whichever is appropriate)
and return to the main loop.

Marius Gedminas
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