Re: hide() show() make my program ends

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 07:15 -0500, Bob Caryl wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> >>There does not appear to be a way to do this trick (Gtk::MessageDialog 
> >>visible, parent window invisible) so far as I can see.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Why should that be possible? Surely transient means that it's not
> >possible. If you don't want it to be transient then don't make it
> >transient.
> >  
> >
> What in the world does that comment mean?  What is the antecedent of the 
> pronoun "it" in your last sentence? 

"it" is the MessageDialog.

> Frankly, I don't know why he wants to hide his main window when he 
> displays an error message.  I can only assume he has his reasons.  So, 
> if "Gtk::MessageDialog visible, parent window invisible" is indeed 
> impossible, how about just saying so and leave it at that?

It means, don't use the constructor that takes a parent window
reference, and/or don't use set_transient_for().

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