Re: [gtkmm] Trapping/cancelling window close events

[jyasskin mail utexas edu]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:09:04AM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 09:45, jyasskin mail utexas edu wrote:
> > I'm wondering how to trap window close events in order to, for example,
> > present a typical 'Save, Discard, or Cancel' dialog to the user.
> > Application generated events are, of course, easy to handle, since I can
> > just put code before the hide() call. I'm more concerned with when the
> > user uses a window decoration to close the window. The documentation
> > doesn't even mention this as a possibility. I think I could provide Save
> > or Discard by connecting to signal_hide, but since it returns void,
> > there's no way to cancel the close. Is there a way to do this? 
> 
> You can override on_delete_event(). See Bakery for an example.
> 

Thank you for the very prompt answer.

It turns out that this event is mentioned in chapter 21 of the gtkmm
book. Isn't it generally useful enough to be described in a more
prominent place  (Like the doxygen docs)?

Thanks again,
Jeffrey Yasskin