Re: embedded perl/Gtk dialog

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Carl Nygard wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 12:37 -0400, muppet wrote:
>
> > On Jul 4, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Carl Nygard wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Are you sure that Dialog::DESTROY is running?  I presume that's why
> > you have the print() in there...
>
> Actually,
> a) DESTROY is not running, and I'm not sure why (and that's an odd
> deja-vu looking at that sentence),

If DESTROY is not running, then $dialog->destroy doesn't get called,  
so the dialog won't leave the screen.  Not surprising.

You can test that hypothesis with an explicit ->destroy after you're  
finished reading the widgets.


> b) I fixed up your suggestion for set_transient_for, didn't fix the
> problem

There's a fix in there, somewhere, but once you figure out the zombie  
dialog problem, the solution here will probably present itself.  :-)


> c) Even resorted to trying to pop down the app window before  
> running the
> perl script, but the app window didn't budge.  hmm.

Try offering it a fudgesicle.  I'd move for a fudgesicle.  Mmmmm,  
fudgesicle.


> d) thew up my hands, blamed Zaf, and I'm moving on.  One more  
> reason to
> convince the boss to ditch Zaf and move to Gtk.

Good luck.  Down with excessive complexity!  Power to the people!


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