Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug in Ethereal: Closing Read Filter Window fails

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> The main problem is that the GtkFileChooser dialog (we use since GTK 
> 2.4) requires to use gtk_dialog_run(), as some widgets of that dialog 
> (e.g. the Ok button) can no longer be accessed directly.
>
> Unfortunately gtk_dialog_run takes control over "all" events (seems to 
> have it's own event loop), so we can open the filter dialog when the 
> "Filter:" button was pressed, but that dialog won't receive any events, 
> which is causing the problem described.
>
> I don't know any convenient solution :-(

Can we run the filter dialog with *its* own event loop?