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[gtk-list] Re: Message Box?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (owt1@cornell.edu)
Mon Jun 23 14:34:40 1997
From: owt1@cornell.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:21:32 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Otto Hammersmith wrote:
> As far as I can tell, gtk+ has no support for modal dialogs (yet).
> This shouldn't be too hard to add, but it would have to be somone more
> familiar with the workings of gdk than I.
The basic support for modality is there ... look for functions with
"grab" in their names. I think I've even tried using it. So the reason
that the GIMP doesn't use any modality may be more a matter of taste.
(Though applications probably _should_ make simple queries modal -
it's confusing and possibly dangerous to have confirmation dialogs
hanging around if the user misses them)
Owen
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