RE: Deriving from Gtk::Dialog, setting parent, and Glade

["Huston, Bob" <rhuston mitre org>]

The dialog class has a "reparent" method that I use to move dialogs
from one
parent to another.


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[mailto:gtkmm-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of rob page
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:29 PM
To: Michael Ekstrand
Cc: gtkmm-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Deriving from Gtk::Dialog, setting parent, and Glade

I think you might want to try:

dialog.set_transient_for(Window& parent)

http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1Win
dow.html#a117

Rob.

On 28/02/06, Michael Ekstrand <lists elehack net> wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> My program currently has a class derived from Gtk::Dialog to
implement
> a preferences dialog. This class provies a static create() method to
> initialize the dialog from a Glade file (using get_widget_derived).
>
> Anyway, I need the preferences dialog to see my main window as its
> parent. I can't seem to find a way to initialize a dialog in this
> manner and provide it with a parent. So far the only idea that's come
> to mind is extracting the vbox that contains the dialog's contents
and
> putting that into a dialog I create. This would work just fine, I
> think (idea came as I was drafting this e-mail), but I'm wondering,
is
> it the "correct" way to accomplish my goal?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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