glade aboutDialog doesn't close

Question

I have an AboutDialog box made in glade, but the Close button doesn't work. I don't know how to connect this button to a separate function, since it sits in a widget called dialog-action_area.

Another problem is if I use the close button created by the window manager, I can't open it again because it has been destroyed.

How can I change this so it just hides?

Answer 1

You need to call the widget's hide() method when you receive delete or cancel signals:

response = self.wTree.get_widget("aboutdialog1").run() # or however you run it
if response == gtk.RESPONSE_DELETE_EVENT or response == gtk.RESPONSE_CANCEL:
  self.wTree.get_widget("aboutdialog1").hide()

You can find the Response Type constants in the GTK documentation