[Glade-users] Modal attribute

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On 5/30/05, Rick Duley <30294025 student murdoch edu au> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I am working with a GtkDialog (Windows XP(Home)).
>
> I am wondering about the line (inserted by Glade_2):
>
>   Set_Modal(<dialog>, True);
>
> I see from the GtkAdaRM that, with this setting, the Dialog should:
> "... grab all the mouse and keyboard events in the application while displayed."
>
> I gather from that that the user should not be able to do anything else until
> the Dialog is closed.  Well, it doesn't work that way!  The dialog displays
> okay but the user can proceed to do anything else regardless.
>
> How can I fix this?

I am not really sure what you mean but in my linux machine the modal
property seems to be working fine... now i am running glade 2.10 and
gtk 2.6.7... in my case the windows are not created in main... but
still most of them are toplevel ones with no parents...

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> Rick Duley
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