Re: [gtk-list] Blocking Dialog and Button listening to right,left mouse

[Tero Pulkkinen <terop students cc tut fi>]

Christoph "Gröver" <grover@hottemax.uni-muenster.de> writes:
> I want to be able to popup a dialog which asks the user for 1 out of 3
> options, but the MainWindow should not be usable at that time and
> - most importantly - the execution of the program waits for the user to
> select one of the options. The dialog then returns a number (or something
> similar) to the calling function and there is a switch statement
> which selects the appropriate handling code.

gtk_grab_add()
/* connect something to gtk_main_quit() */
gtk_main();
gtk_grab_remove()

> So I want a kind of blocking dialog, which enforces the user to act and
> which doesn't call signal handlers, but instead just returns the user made
> selection.
> 
> Is this possible with gtk ?

yup. Of course. Not recommended, but possible.

> Also I would like to try and make the Normal Button widget listen to
> the left and middle mouse buttons.

see button_press_event in GtkWidget.

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