[Glade-users] How to block a signal in a callback

[damon ximian com (Damon Chaplin)]

Jay Baker wrote:
> I've written an application that contains several GtkCombo
> widgets. Within certain combo callbacks, I change the value
> in other combo widget's entry fields. But doing so causes
> these widget's callbacks to be executed, so I need to block
> their signals while I make my changes. However, since the
> callbacks are registered in the interface.c file, the signal
> handles are not saved anywhere for me to use in a
> gtk_signal_handler_block call.
>
> What's the correct way to disable a signal callback from the
> callbacks.c file?

Another way to do this is to set a flag somewhere to indicate
that your signal handler should just return.

You could simply use gtk_object_set_data () to do that.

Damon