Re: Gtk Printing and gtk_dialog_run

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 4/19/06, James Henstridge <james jamesh id au> wrote:
>   
>> Paolo Borelli wrote:
>>     
>>> I haven't yet looked at the new printing api in detail, but from what I
>>> quickly gathered the high level api involves a run() method for the
>>> dialog.
>>>
>>> This may be problematic for many apps that have multiple top level
>>> windows (gedit, epiphany, evince etc) since gtk_dialog_run makes the
>>> dialog modal to the whole application and not just to the current
>>> window, thus blocking user interaction on all the windows.
>>>
>>> Is this the case?
>>>
>>>       
>> If your different toplevel windows are in separate GtkWindowGroups,
>> shouldn't the grab only affect other toplevels in the same window group?
>>     
>
> gtk_dialog_run() is not a grab, its a recursive mainloop.
>   
But gtk_dialog_run() also makes the dialog modal, which results in a
grab, right?

    * gtk_dialog_run() calls gtk_window_set_modal(dialog, TRUE), and
      shows the dialog
    * gtk_window_set_modal() and gtk_window_show() call gtk_grab_add()
      if the window is modal.

James.