RE: extra alive window while dialog is running?

["Mikhail Titov" <mlt gmx us>]

Yann:

Hm.. I thought groups are somehow handled on win32 platform, I don't know X and *nix WMs.

I just checked. Indeed I have two top-level windows (though I may reconsider it since I want some special effects particular to popup windows on win32 platform). When I have my dialog transient to one of the main windows, I have the dialog centered over my window, but the window is still inaccessible :( That is what I've tried.

void MainWindow::OnCursorSettings() {
	ghost = new GhostWindow();
	cursor.set_transient_for(*ghost);
	ghost->show();
	int res = cursor.run();
}

I do want dialog to block MainWindow only, not the ghost one.

I assume you meant the opposite to have a main window transient for dialog.

void MainWindow::OnCursorSettings() {
	ghost = new GhostWindow();
	set_transient_for(cursor);
	ghost->show();
	cursor.show();
}

This froze my application. Also it seems awkward if dialog is not modal and I cannot get result in a usual way.

Any other suggestions? I was thinking about Gtk::Main::iteration . But it is a static function. I'm not sure how two different loops (in case of a dialog) coexist.

Mikhail


-----Original Message-----
From: gtkmm-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gtkmm-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Yann LEYDIER
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 2:52 PM
To: gtkmm-list gnome org
Subject: Re: extra alive window while dialog is running?

Aren't window groups only hints for the window manager ?

If you create two toplevel windows and then a dialog which is transient for one of the two toplevels, provided that the dialog is not modal, it should not prevent you from acting on the other toplevel window…

yann

On 12/06/11 21:27, Mikhail Titov wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I’d like to have an extra window derived from Gtk::Window to be alive while I’m running some dialog. I tried to create new Gtk::WindowGroup and add my window to it prior to running the dialog, however it looks like I can’t move/resize that window.
>
> Is there an extra step to make it work? Or can I somehow pump event 
> loop or something for that window within my dialog? Here is the 
> snippet
>
> void MainWindow::OnCursorSettings() {
> 	ghost = new GhostWindow();
> //	Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::WindowGroup>  g = get_group();
> 	Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::WindowGroup>  g = Gtk::WindowGroup::create();
> 	g->add_window(*ghost);
> 	g->add_window(*this);
> 	Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::WindowGroup>  g2 = Gtk::WindowGroup::create();
> 	g2->add_window(cursor);
> //	ghost->set_transient_for(*this);
> 	ghost->show();
> 	int res = cursor.run();
> }
>
>
> P.S. I'm on win32 running gtkmm 3.0.1 built on top of GTK+ 3.1.4 (from GIT).
>
> Mikhail
>
>
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