Re: gtk_signal_emit_stop seems to get confused

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

rob <mailingLists pangolin org uk> writes:
> I don't seem to be able to stop the insert-text signal if I also block my
> signal handler.
>
> What I'm trying to achieve here is that the user enters say an &, we
> intersept it, stop the signal, stop our signal handler from being emited a
> second time, re-insert the escaped text ( &amp; ) this time allowing
> handlers further up to deal with escaped text, and then re-enable our
> handler.
>
> But the first signal isn't being stoped resulting in duplicate text ( ie
> rather than &amp; we get &amp;& ).
>
> If I comment out everything after the gtk_signal_emit_stop the signal gets
> stoped and no text is ever displayed.

It might be a GTK bug, I'm not sure. You might try moving the
emit_stop after the block though, if it's a bug it seems like that
would make a difference.

Havoc