You can use gtk_widget_show to bring up your dialog, and then use gtk_set_transient_for to mark it "modal to only one window", to get behavior similar to firefox. -Jim
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, silverburgh <silverburgh.me...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Nicola Fontana <n...@entidi.it> wrote: >> Il giorno Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:37:18 -0500 >> silverburgh <silverburgh.me...@gmail.com> ha scritto: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In my gtk application, I can create 2 windows. >>> But when I open a dialog in one of my window using gtk_dialog_run(), >>> why the other window is frozen? >> >> Because this is the intended behavior of gtk_dialog_run(): >> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkDialog.html#gtk-dialog-run >> >>> How can I code it so that one modal dialog do not freeze the other window? >> >> I don't know how to make a modal dialog that does not freeze the >> other windows but if you want a non-modal dialog you can use >> gtk_widget_show() instead of gtk_dialog_run(). >> > > But how can Firefox on linux implements that? > If I have a popup alert in 1 Firefox window, it does not freeze the > other Firefox window and I can scroll up and down in the other window. > > > >> -- >> Nicola >> > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
