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Good morning to everyone.

I am a c programmer, I used a lot visual C++ in windows and I started with visual programming in Linux using GTK. These days I'm fighting with dialogs.

I built a program that open a main window (made with glade) and pushing a button open a "dialog". I don't use gtkdialog because I need a little more complex one (I us a treeview) so I built a second windows (with glade too)

Even if I set the modal property this new dialog is not modal. I can't switch between windows (as modal) but it return immediately (unlike modal)

I noticed that gtk_dialog_run function fails (return -1) and the debug window says:
Can you please help me? Thanks in advance
Wally

Hello and welcome to the GTK+ forums!

Your code fails because GtkWindow is not GtkDialog and you cannot use dialog's methods on windows (it is possible to do it in opposite way, since GtkDialog is derived from GtkWindow).

Now, are you sure you cannot use stock dialog? You can place just about anything inside it (area reserved for user content can be accessed usoing gtk_dialog_get_content_are().

Cheers,
Tadej

hi tadeboro and thanks about your greeting (as you can understand i'm not from "english" lands, so i don't know very well its slang...)

i thought to use gtkwindows because reading gtk reference manual i read gtkdialogs are very poor resources (read it http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.4/GtkDialog.html)

anyway i realized (after a lot of google searches) i can add more resources than i imagined before, so i'm trying to enrich a simple dialog with more controls (or widget, as they are called)

i discovered it is very hard to find documentation about gtk in c language. sometimes it looks to me to try to follow tom thumb crumbs...

thanks again

wally