Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote on 25/07/2003 (08:18) : > catch the top level window delete_event, do nothing in the handler, > return TRUE. Or a better solution might be to pop up a dialog saying "Shutting down system. Please wait while critical data is saved" or something like that. And run a loop which will do a gtk exit when the critical phase has passed and a flag has bee set. Otherwise if this takes some time the user might kill the app in stead as it thinks it has hung or something. -- Preben Randhol -------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95 -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»