Re: Glade signal connect data and full

["Tristan Van Berkom" <tvb gnome org>]

Gah, my mail always misses the list ;-)

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <
tristan van berkom gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:32 AM, dhk <dhkuhl optonline net> wrote:
> [...]
>
>> Thanks, but this is a lot like the glade source.  It doesn't explain the
>> variables.  I need to know what the parameters are and where they come
>> from.  I think the handler_name the one in the glade xml file and the
>> GladeXMLConnectFunc some made up function to execute.  Is this correct?
>>
>> I'm not sure if these are the functions I need to do what I want, but
>> they seem correct.  What I want to do is pass a value for user_data into
>> a handler when a button is clicked.  The glade_xml_signal_autoconnect()
>> function doesn't let me do that.
>
>
> Indeed it doesnt, the autoconnect is only capable of passing alternate
> objects in (it does g_signal_connect_object() and uses SWAPPED flag),
> only when an object is specified for that handler (in the Glade tool, this
> will look confusing, we never finished improving that on our side).
>
> But, there is another libglade function to call for signal connections,
> I think its glade_signal_connect(), but I'm sure you'll find it in the
> headers.
>
> what it does is connects a signal to an object in the glade file by
> widget name (basically just a convenience api for g_signal_connect()),
> it should be a good alternative for you.
>
> Cheers,
>                       -Tristan
>
>