[Gtk-sharp-list] How to show dialog modal and wait for it?

[Christian Hoff]

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I know, the lamest question there can ever be, but to my surprise I 
> cannot achieve this simple goal with Gtk#.
>
>   I copied the message dialog example code from the web, it should 
> create dialog, show it (so far so good) and wait for it to close. But 
> it does not wait -- the main code continue executing.
>
> MessageDialog md = new MessageDialog 
>   (this, DialogFlags.Modal, MessageType.Error, ButtonsType.Close,
>    "some error");
>         
> md.Run ();
>   
I think that you're missing a call to hide the dialog window. If you 
insert a md.Hide (); statement after the md.Run (); line everything 
should work fine.

By now I would expect that your code stops executing until a button is 
pressed on the dialog, but that afterwards the dialog might remain shown.

If it still doesn't work out: What is the Gtk.Response type returned by 
"(Gtk.ResponseType) dialog.Run ();"? Does the whole thing work if you 
use "null" as the parent window (first argument to constructor)?


Hope this helps,


Christian
> // <-- here, I would like to stop and wait for dialog to be closed 
> md.Destroy();
>