[Glade-users] g_signal_connect - Referencing a pointer

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Guy Murray <guymurray at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>    just starting to get to know gtk+ and glade and have the following
> problem.
>
> I want to connect a button to a callback function and pass it a pointer
> to a struct.
>
> I've done this manually with gtk+ using the deprecated
> gtk_signal_connect and it worked fine. However, when I try to do the
> same with glade, by adding the struct pointer as an Object in the
> button's properties dialogue, g_signal_connect (or rather
> g_signal_connect_swapped)  casts it as a GTK_OBJECT which presumably it
> isn't.
>
> Can anyone explain the best way to get around this?


You can use other signal_connect varients from glade-xml.h, you cannot
currently specify pointers as user data in the glade tool, only objects
inside
the project that can be reffered to by name.

Cheers,
               -Tristan
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