[Glade-users] Signal question.

[alexey.kurochkin at pathfinderlwd.com (Alexey Kurochkin)]

On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 12:44 +0000, Peyman wrote:
> This is a topic from a couple of months back between Alexey and Peter  
> Keller, and I have just run into the exact same problem. However, this  
> solution is not working for me
>
> I have a main window, which opens a pop up window. And when I close  
> the pop up window (by pressing the 'x' in the corner) it destroys the  
> pop up window, and I can no longer open it again. I esentially want  
> the pop up window to hide, instead of being destroyed.
>
> I have tried connecting the on _pop_up_window_destroy_event,on  
> _pop_up_window_destroy and on _pop_up_window_delete_event such that  
> the window should hide
>
> def on _pop_up_window_destroy_event(widget,data,wtree)
>          widget.hide()
>       return True
>
> def on _pop_up_window_destroy_event(widget,data,wtree)
>          widget.hide()
>       return True
>
> def on _pop_up_window_destroy_event(widget,data,wtree)
>          widget.hide()
>       return True
>
> It doesn't make a difference, the window is still destroyed. Also I  
> don't know why i'm returning True, just blindly following the previous  
> advice.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Cheers
> Peyman Askari

I doubt I have anything to add not seeing the actual code, besides not
knowing python anyway. I'd suggest you to ask that on PyGTK mailing
list. Maybe somebody could help you debug, or point you to a working
example. See http://www.pygtk.org/feedback.html