Re: Waiting for multiple windows

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 22:25 +0100, Robert Pearce wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:42:49 +0100
> Edd Dawson <edd mr-edd co uk> wrote:
> > 
> > Currently, when I close the main window, all the pop-ups dissappear because the 
> > event loop has finished. Is there any way to keep the initial call to 
> > Gtk::Main::Run() from finishing until all the popups have been closed?
> 
> I'm not sure about this, but I think the trick is to override the main window's on_close event so as to minimize rather than hide.

It is OK to hide (or destroy) the window. Just don't call
Gtk::Main::run() with the main window as its argument (there is a
overload that takes no arguments).

>  Obviously you then need to provide some other way to make it close properly. If you want that to be when the last pop-up closes you probably need to maintain some sort of counter of windows so that the last pop-up knows it's the last one and can call the method that closes the main window.
> 
> Rob

Armin