[Glade-users] signal connection with data

[damon ximian com (Damon Chaplin)]

Ed Winchester wrote:

> If I use glade_xml_signal_autoconnect(), will I get the data that I
> specified when I defined that signal?  How, like, could someone give me
> a brief, understandable example?
>
> Or, if the answer is that that function won't get it, would I first run
> that function anyway to connect what it can connect, and then use
> glade_xml_signal_connect_data() to reconnect each one that I need the
> data from?

I'm not sure. Have a look at the libglade manual:

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libglade/gladexml.html

 
> I have it in mind to have in my program an initialization section which
> will use glade_xml_get_widget() and glade_xml_get_widget_prefix() to get
> all the objects which my program has to interact with.  These objects
> will come in as GtkWidget*, and then I'll cast them to, for example,
> GtkButton by using the GTK_BUTTON macro, right?  Then I could interract
> with the widget via the regular GTK function calls?

That is what we do in Evolution. Though we just keep them as GtkWidget*.

Damon