Re: Some new to gtkmm questions

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

John Taber wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 23:11, Timothy M. Shead wrote:
>  
> > > 2) splash screen - I have a splashscreen class that runs fine by itself
> > > but how do I specify it in "main.cpp"  so that after it disappears, main
> > > runs the main layout dialog.  my main now looks like:
> > > int main(....)
> > > Gtk::Main kit(...)
> > > SplashDialog *splash = new SplashDialog();
> > > splash->show();
> > > delete splash;
> > > MainDialog mainDlg;
> > > Gtk::Main::run(mainDlg);
> > >      
> > You are deleting your splash as soon as it is created, it never becomes
> > visible because there is no event loop running to make it visible.  You
> > probably want to call
> >
> > splash->run();
> >
> >    
> > > with this the splashscreen never appears - do I somehow need to set it
> > > modal ?
> > >      
>
> I understand what you mean about deleting immediately but run is not a method 
> of splash (which is derived from Gtk::Window) - I also tried using 
> Gtk::main::run()  which runs the splash okay but then doesn't seem to run 
> main dialog - my guess is that I need to set splash to be a modal dialog - 
> that would hold it before deleting - but not sure how to do it.
> John
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HeyJohn,

If you have something set up to hide the splash window (like a timer 
event) at some point, then I think the following code should work:

SplashDialog *splash = new SplashDialog();
Gtk::Main::run(*splash);
delete splash;
MainDialog mainDlg;
Gtk::Main::run(mainDlg);

Best regards,
Bob Caryl