Re: implenting signals for the widgets in widgets.c

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

Hello all,

It's been more than a week since I posted this. Is there someone in
particular that I should bug, other than Hans and Lars?

Sameer.

On 2/21/07, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sameerds gmail com> wrote:
> On 2/7/07, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
>
> > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60331
>
> > > > http://gtk.org/tutorial/x2202.html
>
> > I do think it's worth it to make them correct, for several reasons: 1)
> > it will make them reusable in other contexts, 2) it means that normal
> > and custom gtk widgets behave the same, 3) it makes it easier to find
> > out where things are happening in the future, and 4) correct does tend
> > to be the good solution in the long term.
>
> Hello,
>
> This is about implementing signals for all the custion Dia* widgets,
> since they are necessary before group properties can be edited from
> the properties dialog. I have modified most of the widgets to emit
> useful signals. All the changes are pretty non-intrusive, except
> DiaDynamicMenu.
>
> I have replaced the activate_func callback used by the dynamic menu,
> with a "changed" signal. All the constructors have been modified
> accordingly, and all users now connect their callback to the signal
> instead of passing it as an argument.
>
> Attaching a patch with only the changes that modify DiaDynamicMenu,
> and all its users. This includes the sheets menu, font selector and
> the color selector. The patch "works for me".
>
> If this works out, will send another patch that implements a
> "value-changed" signal for all the remaining simpler widgets.
>
> Note: I've tried to use only the Gtk 2.0 API in all the new code,
> avoiding all the deprecated stuff.
>
> Sameer.
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> http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/


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