Re: Question about modal dialog in gtk application

[silverburgh <silverburgh meryl gmail com>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Nicola Fontana <ntd entidi it> wrote:
> Il giorno Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:37:18 -0500
> silverburgh <silverburgh meryl gmail com> ha scritto:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In my gtk application, I can create 2 windows.
> > But when I open a dialog in one of my window using gtk_dialog_run(),
> > why the other window is frozen?
>
> Because this is the intended behavior of gtk_dialog_run():
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkDialog.html#gtk-dialog-run
>
> > How can I code it so that one modal dialog do not freeze the other window?
>
> I don't know how to make a modal dialog that does not freeze the
> other windows but if you want a non-modal dialog you can use
> gtk_widget_show() instead of gtk_dialog_run().

But how can Firefox on linux implements that?
If I have a popup alert in 1 Firefox window, it does not freeze the
other Firefox window and I can scroll up and down in the other window.



> --
> Nicola