[Pipmak-Devel] Re: GTK dialogs for Linux

[Urs H. <ur...@an...>]

Christian Walther wrote:
> I just committed a GTK implementation of the platform-specific
> functions (error messages, open and save dialogs) for Linux (and other
> Unixes). It works here with GTK 2.10 on Fedora Core 4 on x86, and it
> should work with GTK >= 2.4 anywhere.
> 
> Urs, or anyone, if you have any comments about my somewhat unorthodox
> solutions (GTK just doesn't seem to be made for sporadic use in
> non-GTK applications), please let me know.

Yeah! This (the source code) looks good. I tried it the same way (some
time ago) and was stuck with the dialog not closing. I found out that
calling gtk_main would solve that problem, but never return. But you
found the solution:

From the source:
/* for some reason, the dialog isn't closed without the following two
lines */
g_timeout_add(0, quitGtkMain, NULL);
gtk_main();

The good thing is, that you can easily implement the dialogs unsing
other libraries. The problem is, I think, that linking a complete
GTK-Library to a game, that only uses error-dialogs and
file-save/load-dialogs from GTK and implements all other graphic stuff
through SDL is an overkill. But for us, this is not a big problem,
because the unhappy ones can compile pipmak without GTK.

So, your solution is good.