[pygtk] hide on delete_event()

[Steve McClure]

On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Timo wrote:

> Peyman schreef:
>> Hello
>>
>> I am new to this mailing list. Originally I was posting to the glade
>> mailing list
>>
>> My question is a simple one, I want my window to hide when I close it
>> (by clicking 'x'). I have browsed the web and the answer appears to  
>> be
>>
>> def on_window_delete_event(widget,data,wtree):
>> 		print "If you can read this, then everything should work fine"
>>
>> 		widget.hide()
>> 		return gtk.TRUE
>>
>>
> I don't know if it matters, but try
> return True
> instead of return gtk.TRUE.
>
>> But when I do this very exact thing it still gets destroyed. And  
>> later
>> when I call the drawingArea widget (inside the window) it claims  
>> there
>> is no such widget.
>>
>> Anyone else run into this problem?

You need to return False, instead of True, to keep the dialog from  
being destroyed.

>>
>>
>> Thank You
>>
>>
>> Peyman Askari
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