Re: Nesting gtk_main ?



On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 19:14 +0100, Martin Vejnár wrote:
> In electronics design, it is common to have two independent windows, one 
> which shows the schematics and the other shows the circuit board. You 
> don't want dialog boxes pertaining to one window to block the other.

Sounds like you might want to consider the supporting dialogs as
"Utility" windows rather than as GtkDialogs. You can set a GtkWindow to
be a utility window by setting the type hint,
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.18/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-type-hint
and
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gdk/WindowTypeHint.html#UTILITY

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