[Glade-users] Help with dialog box
Paolo Franzetti
paolo at lambrate.inaf.it
Fri Jan 5 05:32:34 EST 2007
Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> Paolo:
>
> Please keep replies on-list, for the benefit of search engines, other
> readers, etc.; I'm CC'ing this back to the list.
>
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Paolo Franzetti wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> My code is very simple. I have this function:
>>
>>
>> void on_button_pressed() {
>>
>> dialog=glade_xml_new(/mydir/dialog.glade" , NULL, NULL);
>> glade_xml_signal_autoconnect(dialog);
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> which is called on a button press in my main window.
>>
>> When I press the button I see the dialog, but it is completely
>> stuck; I cannot do anything in it (press button, open the combo box
>> list, close the dialog).
>
> Then I'm not sure what's going on; the problem is likely somewhere else
> in your code. Perhaps something else is currently active as a modal
> dialog? If this new dialog is shown in response to a button in a modal
> dialog, it won't respond to anything unless it's set up to be modal (and
> it may need to be a transient child of the first dialog - see
> gtk_window_set_transient_for). The following program works perfectly
> with your glade file on my system:
>
> ==== BEGIN SNIP ====
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <glade/glade-xml.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
>
> GladeXML *dlg = glade_xml_new("dialog.glade", NULL, NULL);
> glade_xml_signal_autoconnect(dlg);
>
> gtk_main();
> return 0;
> }
>
> void on_about_cancel_clicked(GtkButton *button)
> {
> gtk_main_quit();
> }
> ==== END SNIP ====
>
> - Michael
I have found the problem; the main window was set up to be modal.
Now it works.
Thank you very much,
Paolo
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