Re: Gtk Printing and gtk_dialog_run

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 4/19/06, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I could add a gtk_print_operation_run_async() call that shows the dialog
> > and then returns to the main mainloop, using signals to drive the dialog
> > etc. However, even that should really call gtk_window_set_modal on the
> > print dialog to make it modal to the GtkWindowGroup of that window, so
> > I'm not sure how much of a difference this makes.
>
> Making the dialogue modal to the parent window is ok for me. The
> difference with _run_async is that it doesn't require a recursive
> mainloop :) In Epiphany, printing can be called from mozilla code, where
> I really don't want to run a recursive mainloop (this blocks networking
> and has several other problems). So a totally async API for print
> dialogue and job would be very appreciated.
>

Its probably not possible to do that on win32, though, so this run_async
could not be part of the high-level portable api. Or am I wrong, Alex ?