Re: Gtk Printing and gtk_dialog_run
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>
- Cc: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>, gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Gtk Printing and gtk_dialog_run
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:44:37 +0200
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 09:42 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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 ?
I'm pretty sure we can make it sync on win32, but still use the same API
so apps will continue working on win32.
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