Re: using popup dialog boxes with perl gladexml

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 19:09, muppet wrote:
> Dan Lyke said:
> > 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.
>
> this is a big PITA for GnomeAboutDialogs, because they auto-destroy
> themselves; thus they are single-use only from glade.  i recall discussing
> this last year.

In gtkmm, we disable all that auto-destroy stuff, because we don't want
GTK+ doing C-specific memory management.

This is possible because we actually instantiate derived GTypes, with
custom vfunc implementations, even with libglade.

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