Re: wy signal handler could not be override

[Jonas Platte <jonasplatte myopera com>]

Am 29.03.2013 15:05, schrieb Klaus Rudolph:
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> > It would be better to declare the override-method as virtual, but I
> > don't think it is necessary. But try that too.
> Overriding a virtual function needs no additional virtual.
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> > What I think is the most probable answer to the question why your method
> > is not called, is that the default signal handler is empty and therefore
> > it was not considered necessary to connect it to the signal
> The handler in the Item class calls with obj->func which normally should result in calling my
> virtual function override. Maybe I have to recompile the complete gtk libs from scratch to get
> the debug info. But this also is a very very hard job. I started this but stopped after a week of trouble.
It is quite easy when you use jhbuild. But I don't think it really makes 
sense to compile everything yourself just because of this little problem.
> Maybe someone can find a solution? I hope that there will be usable way to get the things work. If this way 
> is impossible, maybe it is better to remove the topic in the documentation. It is not very nice to read the 
> examples in the beginners tutorial which are not working at all!
>
> Regards
>   Klaus
I would recommend you to just work around this with manually connecting 
your signal handler to the signal for now.