Re: non-modal dialogs

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:31 +0100, Morten Bo Nielsen wrote:
> hi
> 
> I have searching for a way to do non-modal dialogs. In my application I
> want to have multiple message boxes, that times out and destroys
> themselves when done.
> 
> I have made a class that extends the ordinary MessageDialog class, and
> overloads run() and on_delete_event. Code at the bottom.

I'm pretty sure that Dialog::run() is for modal dialogs.

I would just use show() and connect a signal_timeout handler that called
hide() or delete on the window (passed via sigc::bind, maybe) after a
certain amount of time.

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