Re: Closing About GtkAboutDialog

Dunno about glade, but I think the signal you want to trap is called "destroy". I routinely trap these to force behavior other than "die". Look in GtkWidget or one of the more basic classes. Cheers! -Ben On Sunday 28 January 2007 08:08, Lupine wrote: > Forgive me if this has been asked before, I Googled the archives, and > didn't find it. If it has, please accept my apologies, and just point > me in the right direction. > > I just started playing around with PHP-GTK Glade based applications, and > I've come up against a fairly simple, but so far escaping problem. > Let's say I created a very simple Glade file with 2 dialogs. The > main_dialog and the about_dialog. If I code up something to display the > about_dialog when the users clicks the Help -> About: > ... > $this->glade->get_widget("about_dialog")->show(); > ... > > And then the user uses the built in little "X" at the top right to close > the about_dialog or hits ALT+F4 to close the about_dialog, everything is > fine. However, if the user tries to re-open the about_dialog, they'll > get an error like this: > > Fatal error: Call to a member function show() on a non-object in... > > Which makes sense, because the object has been destroyed, not hidden. > If the user clicks my close button, which I have coded to do this: > > function on_about_close_button_clicked() > { > $this->glade->get_widget("about_dialog")->hide(); > } > > ...then everything works, and the user can re-launch the about_dialog as > needed. However, if they close the dialog with any other method than > the Close button, the error will always happen. > > With using Glade + PHP-GTK, what is the best way around this? > -Lup > > -- > PHP-GTK General Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978