[Gtk-sharp-list] (best practices) how to retrieve the output from the dialog

[Christopher David Howie]

On 05/02/2010 03:41 PM, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
>   Ok, in a way I figured it out -- Run() instead of Show() makes the 
> difference -- but still didn't grasp the "internal" meaning, why 
> Show() is bad (after all dialog is still modal).

The difference is what you have already found out -- Run is intended to
be used on dialogs.  It blocks and waits for a response to be generated
from the dialog, then returns that response.

So Run could be considered the synchronous variant of Show, with the
perk that it returns a value you can use to see if your ok, cancel, or
some other button was clicked.

-- 
Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
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