[PATCH] Re: Bug: GtkAboutDialog does not hide when close button clicked

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Arjan Opmeer wrote:

> I think you guys missed a little change in the way about-dialogs  
> are handled
> in GTK+ 2.10. To quote from the README:
>
>    * Dialogs created by gtk_about_dialog_new() no longer hide  
> automatically
>      when the user clicks close. It is the applications  
> responsibility to
>      hide or destroy the dialog.

Did, indeed, miss that.  That's the peril of having to reimplement  
functionality because of the lack of a bindable version of the API...

> There's a little bit of extra code in the implementation of
> gtk_show_about_dialog() that handles this:
>
>    /* Close dialog on user response */
>    g_signal_connect (dialog, "response", G_CALLBACK (close_cb), NULL);

The close_cb() actually manipulates a couple of internal widgets to  
which we do not have access.  About the best we can do is the  
attached patch.

Attachment: show_about_dialog.patch
Description: Binary data

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