Re: Gtk::Dialog::on_delete_event() is never called

[John Spray <spray lyx org>]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:43 +0200, Tobias Eberle wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> > > I want to prevent that the user can close a dialog (derived from
> > > Gtk::Dialog) by clicking on the X. I tried to override
> > > on_delete_event():
> > This shold work. Try a simple test case. It certainly works with
> > Gtk::Window. You might also investigate on_response().
> 
> It works with Gtk::Window, but it doesn't with Gtk::Dialog. Try the
> following test program:

When you use GtkDialog::run(), clicking the X doesn't result in a delete
event, it causes the response signal to be emitted with
RESPONSE_DELETE_EVENT.

What you want is probably something like

int result = Gtk::RESPONSE_NONE;
while (result != Gtk::RESPONSE_DELETE_EVENT) {result = mydialog.run()}

John