Re: Help with modal dialog

["Matthew A. Postiff" <postiffm comcast net>]

On 4/20/2016 2:07 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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
You are right. I had:
return gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(dialog));

I'm very new at this. I tried replacing that with:
gtk_widget_show_all(dialog);
return 0; // I don't use the return value anyway

and the dialog momentarily appears, then disappears quickly before I can
see if the guts of it are all present.