Hi Paul, In recent GTK+ versions, GtkDialog emits a warning when it is mapped without a parent, saying that it is discouraged. See https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkdialog.c#n776 On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> IIUC, in this specific case I should create the main frame, hide it and then >>> set the parent for my options dialog to be this main frame. >> >> you do not need to set the parent, and in almost all cases you should >> not set the parent. > > to be clear, i am referring to explicitly setting the "transient > parent" of a GtkWindow. I am not referring to setting the parent of a > GtkDialog, but GtkDialog's are entirely happy to have no parent. -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list