Re: problem with two modal windows

[John Cupitt <john cupitt ng-london org uk>]

Ottavio Campana wrote:
> I'm having a problem with a little program, when I'm showing two modal 
> windows.
>
> The problem is the following:
>
> The user selects the file for saving his data with a modal 
> gtkfileselection. When he clicks on "ok" my callback checks if he can 
> create the desidered file (check on write right and so on). If the user 
> hasn't got the right to write the file I'd like to show him a modal 
> gnomemessagebox with the error.
>
> The problem is that the second modal messagebox appers under the 
> gtkfileselection, and it's hard to see. How I make apper as the nearest 
> to the user?

gtk_window_present() will try to show a window to the user

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-present

But it should be at the front anyway. Are you creating the messagebox as a child of the fileselection?

John