Re: GTK question

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:

> > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:52, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
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> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html
> > >
> > > Most the signals are documented.
> > >      
> > Well, unless you count some template "widget :the object which
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> received
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> > the signal." stuff as having the signal documented, most of them seem
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> to
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> > be lacking descriptions of when they are fired for instance.
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> This is true.  
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> > Normally they are intuitively named, but the difference between "show"
> > and "show-help" is not clear.
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> Yea, I agree, the same goes for the "map" and "map-event"? Which is
> correct?
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> Regards,
> Martyn
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isn't "map" a GtkWidget signal and "map-event" some kind of hybrid
(maybe when a container performs:
if (gtk_widget_visible(wid))
   gtk_widget_map();
on all of its children ?)

I guess its not clear but it depends if your looking at a flat list of
all possible signals or not ;-/

Cheers,
       -Tristan