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[gtk-list] Re: Make an entire window insensitive?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Andersen)
Fri Nov 6 15:49:59 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:48:23 -0700 (MST)
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@inconnect.com>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I'm interested in popping-up a progress dialog while my app does some
> work. This dialog appears as the child of another dialog.
>
> The parent dialog is not modal, but when the progress dialog appears, I
> don't want the user to be able to do anything in the parent, until the
> operation completes and the progress dialog disappears.
>
> The best thing I can come up with is keeping track of all the widgets in
> the dialog and toggling the insensitivity of each. That seems messy.
> Is there a single function that will make an entire dialog disabled, or
> insensitive, or similar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
What you want is to call either:
Gtk_Main::instance()->grab_add( *this);
Gtk_Main::instance()->grab_remove( *this);
or
gtk_grab_add(widget);
gtk_grab_remove(widget);
depending on whether you are using Gtk-- or Gtk+. Either way, this
just prevents everything else from receiving events, which is the
Right Way(tm) to make stuff be modal in Gtk+.
-Erik
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