[Gtk-sharp-list] Suppressing response in a dialog

[Chris Howie]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Vladimir Giszpenc
<vladimir.giszpenc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After reading on this list about the Dispose pattern as applied to
> Gtk.Dialogs, I followed the lead of others.  My problem is that in my
> OK button I call a
> bool Validate() function.  When this function returns false, I want to
> alert the user to what is wrong and NOT CLOSE.  I return out of my
> Click event, but someone else is generating a ResponseType.OK
> response.
>
> How can I suppress the Response signal that is now leading to my
> dialog getting closed?  The .Netish thing to do would be a class that
> inherits eventArgs on which I set some cancel = true.  I know this not
> to exist.
>
> Any ideas?

Set the response type of the button to None, and use Dialog.Respond to
emit the OK response yourself after your validation succeeds.

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