Re: How can i set an idle handler that fires when no modal dialog is shown?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Lothar Scholz <llothar web de> wrote:
> Hello Gtk-list,
>
> I have a background thread that can fire a gui task by using
> "g_idle_add". But i don't want the task run when there is a
> modal dialog or a drag&drop operation in progress.
>
> In other words the user shouldn't be interrupted when doing something.
> I thought that "gtk_main_level" would tell me if a modal window is up
> but it doesn't. For me it always returns 1.
>
> Any ideas?

get the list of all toplevel windows in the app?