Re: Hiding modal dialogs

[John J Lee <jjl pobox com>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, David Nečas wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:46:48AM +0000, John J Lee wrote:
> > Yes.  So I was asking about hiding the dialog without closing it.  It's
> > not obvious to me why setting the dialog's "visible" property causes its
> > main loop to quit.
>
> What are you trying to achieve?

To quote from my original message:

> I no longer intend to try to do this in real code -- I'm just curious re 
> whether its possible, and why.


> gtk_dialog_run() runs the dialog as modal, i.e. all other controls in
> the application become non-responsive.

Yes.


> With a hidden modal dialog you can neither use the rest of the UI nor
> bring the dialog back (because you must do *something* to bring it back
> but the UI is non-responsive).
[...]

I don't think that's true: the UI is responsive after popping up another 
modal dialog.


John