On 4/20/2016 2:07 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:07:50AM -0400, Matt Postiff wrote: >> I have a working dialog that displays a system log file in "real time" >> in my gtk2 Windows/Linux app. It is modal. >> >> What I want to do is make it non-modal so it can float off to the side >> of my app and always be visible while I work in the app. >> >> I have tried to gtk_window_set_modal to FALSE and also set <property >> name="modal">False</property> in the gtkbuilder xml. >> >> A snippet of the code and xml is at http://pastebin.com/mACPZP85 >> >> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thank you. > How are you displaying that dialog? Your code snipped doesn't include > that part. Make sure you don't use gtk_dialog_run(). Use > gtk_widget_show() or gtk_widget_show_all() (whichever is appropriate) > and return to the main loop. > > Marius Gedminas You are right. I had: return gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(dialog));
I'm very new at this. I tried replacing that with: gtk_widget_show_all(dialog); return 0; // I don't use the return value anyway and the dialog momentarily appears, then disappears quickly before I can see if the guts of it are all present. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
