Re: Closing (and destroying) windows.

[Carsten Burstedde <bursted iam uni-bonn de>]

Hi Colin,

> I have an application with a number of windows. Each window is retained all
> the time, and "shown" via clicking a button. The window is then "hidden" by
> clicking a button on that window. All very simply.
>
> Each Gtk window is created in its own CDE window, which just happens to have
> an in-built "close" function. If the user selects this, then the Gtk window
> is not just hidden, but destroyed. The upshot of this is that I can not re-show
> the window.

you can connect to the delete-event on that window, call gtk_widget_hide from the
handler and return TRUE. If you don't catch the event or return FALSE from the
handler, the widget-destroy signal follows by default, which is not what you want.

Regards,

Carsten