On 24 May 2011 04:45, Lothar Scholz <llothar@xxxxxx> wrote: > I have a background thread that can fire a gui task by using > "g_idle_add". But i don't want the task run when there is a > modal dialog or a drag&drop operation in progress. > > In other words the user shouldn't be interrupted when doing something. > I thought that "gtk_main_level" would tell me if a modal window is up > but it doesn't. For me it always returns 1. I handle this by keeping GUI updates from background threads very discreet. Instead of making a large change to the GUI when a background event happens, I just light up an "updates available" button. The user has to click this to see the new stuff. Probably not a helpful reply, sorry :( John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
