Re: Waiting for multiple windows

[Edd Dawson <lists mr-edd co uk>]

N.B: I mistakenly posted this to Jonathon directly.
To everyone else that has responded -- thankyou!

Hi Jonathon,

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Edd Dawson <lists mr-edd co uk> wrote:
> > I'm writing a system where requests are coming in asyncronously (through a
> > socket, typically) and a new window is created to handle each request.
> >
> > To do this, I have a "main" window that shows the active connections and its
> > class has a member function that pops up a new window to handle each request.
> > These pop-up windows should not block input to any other window (i.e. they
> > should not be modal).
> >
> > 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?

> If your main window knows whether there are any popup windows still
> open, you can override on_delete_event () [1] (which is called when
> the user clicks the window manager close button) and if there are any
> popups still open, return false (or is it true? I never remember) to
> not allow the main window to be destroyed.  Does that help?
>
> [1] http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1Widget.html#a97a4453ec12f7fce163353c2bcaf580

Perfect! Thanks very much for your help!

Edd