Re: How to wait on a modal dialog

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Jonathan Hayward wrote:
> In converting a non-event-driven application which works off of being able 
> to wait for user input before continuing, I want to put up a modal dialog, 
> and continue when I have the user's input. I have interpreted this as: 
> Display the modal dialog, wait for an answer (using usleep), and return a 
> value. (Is the best approach?)

Um,
    in gtk+ try gtk_dialog_run();

(this will return when the dialog is finished,
it will also not lockup your application)

Cheers,
                     -Tristan