RE: Emitting signals

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

But this afaik sendsd only gdk_atom stuff ... Havoc can tell you more perhaps.
Maybe you can regsiter something else...

Maher

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 08:06:50 -0400, Tim Betts said:

>  Hi Alan,
>  
>  I found this snippet of code inside a GTK Theme Switcher written by
>  "muhri muhri net".
>  It doesn't specifically send the event you want, but maybe its relevant
>  enough to help you synthesize one that does. 
>  
>  Maybe Havoc, Muhri, and Tor could comment on whether this could be modified
>  to help or not, since I really don't know. Looks like there is UNIX GDK code
>  to do something in gdk_send_clientmessage_toall(), but none in the Win32
>  port as yet though.
>  
>  void 
>  send_refresh_signal(void)
>  {
>    GdkEventClient event;  
>    event.type = GDK_CLIENT_EVENT;
>    event.send_event = TRUE;
>    event.window = NULL;
>    event.message_type = gdk_atom_intern("_GTK_READ_RCFILES", FALSE);
>    event.data_format = 8;
>    gdk_event_send_clientmessage_toall((GdkEvent *)&event);
>  }
>  
>  Just trying to help,
>  
>     Tim.
>  
>  
>  > ----------
>  > From:      Havoc Pennington[SMTP:hp redhat com]
>  > Sent:      Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:43 PM
>  > To:        Dugas, Alan
>  > Cc:        gtk-app-devel-list gnome org; gtk-list gnome org
>  > Subject:   Re: Emitting signals
>  > 
>  > 
>  > "Dugas, Alan" <alan dugas analog com> writes:
>  > > Is there a way to emit a signal globally to all windows or all
>  > > widgets regardless of what window they are in?  What I have are
>  > > several graphics windows that need to be updated every time a new
>  > > piece of data is gathered.  I would like to be able to send a
>  > > signal, say "expose", to all of the graphics windows without having
>  > > to individually store each of them in an array somewhere.
>  > 
>  > The answer is pretty much no; you have to keep a list.
>  > 
>  > Then sythesize an expose and send it with gtk_widget_event(), the
>  > default implementaiton of the draw method on GtkWidget (in
>  > gtk/gtkwidget.c) has an example.
>  > 
>  > Havoc
>  > 
>  > 
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