On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Maciej Pilichowski <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Modal windows prevent interaction with other windows in the same >> application." It doesn't mean they do that by stopping event >> processing... > > I think it means exactly that -- if the events processing isn't > stopped it would be up to every handler to check if the window has > child modal window, and if it has, ignore the event.
No, this is not correct. Processing of events already in the queue still happens. But clicks and keyboard interaction on windows "blocked" by the modal dialog are ignored by GDK/GTK. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers _______________________________________________ Gtk-sharp-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list
