Re: Help with modal dialog

[Phil Wolff <adiabat centurylink net>]

Sounds like your dialog goes out of scope when the "return 0" statement 
executes. Is the pointer to the dialog stored on the stack as a local 
variable, or as a class variable that will be preserved until the class 
is destroyed?

On 2016-04-20 06:50 PM, Matthew A. Postiff wrote:
> 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.
>
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