[maemo-developers] Dialogs and gtk_window_set_transient_for()

[From: Tapani Pälli]

Hello;

ext Arto Karppinen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Im developing an app which shows modal dialogs to the user. Also the app 
> may popup a custom error message dialog if something goes wrong. 
> Currently i'm setting both dialog to be transient_for to my main window. 
> This has the effect of the error dialog appearing beneath the first 
> modal dialog..
>
>   
Does the error happen due to a wrong action in the first dialog? Why
don't you set error dialog to be transient to the modal dialog?

> That is, the dialog which is first set to be trancient for the main 
> window, is shown on top of any dialog which is created later.
>
> Which is not what i want, i want the error message dialog to be shown on 
> top.
>
> Is there some way to get which dialogs are trancient for a window, or do 
> i have to build some kind of system which keeps track of what dialogs 
> are currently shown

If you show a modal dialog, it means that you should not be able to
access the application elsewhere before closing this dialog. It is
probably best for you to set error dialog transient to the modal dialog.
You might want to pass the window as parameter to the function that pops
up the dialog so it can be changed easily.


// Tapani Pälli

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