Re: using popup dialog boxes with perl gladexml

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Dan Lyke said:
> Jan Hudec writes:
> > Except that now you parse the whole xml file twice.
>
> Yeah, but...
>
> Some quick test code shows me that if you do
>
>     my $dialog = $gladexml->get_widget('fileselectionSaveAs');
>     $dialog->show();
>     $dialog->run();
>     $dialog->destroy();
>
> You cannot then do it again. That widget is gone.
>
> If $gladexml->get_widget() gave me a new instance of the widget that'd
> be great, I could do one parse and one
>
>     $gladexml->signal_autoconnect_from_package(...);
>
> And life would be groovy. So the only time you can use the invisible
> trick is for something like a startup dialog, otherwise you've got to
> parse again.
>
> Or am I mistaken?

i would of thought this would work, but it seems to crash window maker on my
box, that's probably not good.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Gtk2 '-init';

my $dialog = Gtk2::Dialog->new ('Hello', undef, [], 'gtk-ok' => 'none');

$dialog->run;
$dialog->hide;
# after some time etc.
$dialog->run;

-rm