Re: Modal Dialogs

[Guenther Sohler <guenther sohler newlogic com>]

Hallo Diego,

thank you very much for your answer. No I almost understood you text, but I had
to read it several times.
My Application is a somehow a design tool where you can put shapes into a
window.
I have done a pulldown menu file->plot
where I want a dialog window pop up to ask some special plot geenration options.
At this point I want the program flow to stop until the user selected all the
things and then press ok, so then the plot routine can start with the given
parameters.
Whats your advice ?

rds Guenther


On 05-Dec-2002 Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Guenther Sohler wrote:
> 
>> Whats the right solution ?
> From the GUI design pov it's NOT to use modal dialogs at all. Your
> program should be a single window - so you avoid "smart" users that
> successfully "hide" the dialog and then call you saying that the program
> is stuck! A GtkNotebook w/o tabs as the top level widget, just inside
> the GtkWindow, is what I'd suggest (and it's what drastically reduced
> num of calls for help :-) ).
> If you really want to use pop-up modal windows, or there's no way to get
> rid of'em (e.g. if you're using gnome fileselector), you could
> gtk_set_sensitive(GTK_WIDGET(main_win), FALSE) so that no widget in the
> main win can be activated.
> 
> BYtE,
>  Diego.
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