>> window for 5 seconds. I suppose I want to allow "main" to run for 5=20 >> seconds and then call "gtk_widget_destroy(window)" but I'm not sure how t= >o=20 >> go about it. Any ideas? > >use alarm to send a SIGALARM to the program and call gtk_widget_destroy >or gtk_main_quit from the signal handler. horrible idea. signal handlers are asynchronous with respect to the event loop, unless you understand how to use glib in ways that i strongly suspect the questioner does not. use gtk_timeout_add() to add a callback that will be called in some number of milliseconds. have the callback hide the window and return FALSE indicating it does not need to be called again. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
