[Glade-users] About box and menu item.

Damon Chaplin damon@ximian.com
Mon, 21 May 2001 14:15:29 -0400


Shivdeep Krishnan wrote:
> 
> Dear Friend,
> 
> Thanks for your help. I finally got through with the radiobuttons. I had stupidly overlooked the simple solution. Thanks a lot.
> 
> I had created a Gnome dialog box and want to display it on the "activate" of the menuitem "mnu_about"; I gave in the create_about1() :
> ===================================================
> 
>  gtk_signal_connect_object (GTK_OBJECT (mnu_help_menu_uiinfo[2].widget), "activate",
>                              GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (on_mnu_about_activate),
>                              GTK_OBJECT (about1));
> 
> ===================================================
> 
> But it is diplayed only once when the menuitem is activated. After that I just get errors. Please help me.

Are you creating the dialog each time on_mnu_about_activate() is called?
That is probably best for About dialogs.

The dialog is probably being destroyed wheh it is closed, so you can't
show it again.

Damon