[pygtk] When to Initialize Non-Main Windows?

[Markus W. Barth]

On Friday 30 May 2008 11:53:58 Casey McGinty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a best coding practice for the best point in the program execution
> to initialize secondary PyGtk windows?
>
> For example, all the background windows can be created during program init,
> but this might slow down the program startup. The other option is to create
> dialogs on first access, however it might introduce some delay in the GUI.
>
> What is the general conscientious on this, if there is any?

I think there is no general best practice. I usually call destroy() on the 
dialogs once run() returns

<snippet>
dialog = gtk.Dialog()
...packing widgets...
dialog.show_all()
            dialog.add_buttons(gtk.STOCK_OK,gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT,
                                          gtk.STOCK_CANCEL,  
                                          gtk.RESPONSE_REJECT)
response_id = dialog.run()
if response_id   == gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT:
    ...do what you have to do...
elif response_id   ==  gtk.RESPONSE_REJECT:
   ... do something else...
else:
   ... you probably don't need that...
dialog.destroy()
</snippet>