RE: [gtkmm] Child Windows?

[Sergio Pascual <spr astrax fis ucm es>]

I have another aproach to this. I dont know weather is better or worse.

I preffer to have one main window and other windows derived from 
Gtk::Window. This other windows are members of the class MainWindow

MainWindow: public Gtk::Window
{
...
OtherWindow1 otherwindow1;
OtherWindow2 otherwindow2;
...
}

I dont show() on the constructors of OtherWindow, so this windows are 
hidden in the begining og the program. You can use a callback on a button 
or menu of MainWindow to call the show() method of the OtherWindow class, 
and 
a callback on a button or menu on the OtherWindow class to hide the 
window using the hide() method.

I use the 
OptionsDialog *my_options_dialog = new OptionsDialog(this);
approach only when using a modal Gtk::Dialog , which effectively blocks 
the GUI.

I hope that helps.

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