Re: [glade--]Dialog and destroy_event()

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Murray Cumming schrieb:
> > Well, I guess I could do it there.  So what did that signal exist for in
> > 1.x?
>
>
> To confuse people.

Correct. I couldn't even believe widget destruction might be possible 
with standard C++ ways (delete this) when told this way. I was too 
familiar with the old strange ways of destruction. (Read: Gtk_Trashcan 
and xyz->destroy())

> >  And, what does delete_event exist for currently?  As, in what is a
> > typical use for them?
>
>
> In GTK+ it exists because it's hard to subclass or scope in C.

Isn't delete_event useful for popping up things like "do you really want 
to exit?" if a user tries to close a window?

    Christof