Re: gsignal help

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Marisa DeMeglio wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > Marisa DeMeglio wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would be grateful for some help understanding a few
> > > gsignal functions .. first of all, the "g_signal_new"
> > > function...
> >
> > All the answers are here, but it will take some
> > effort: http://le-hacker.org/papers/gobject
>
> Thank you for your email.  I had been reading this site, but parts of it 
> are still unclear.  The object which emits the signal in his example is 
> a "maman_file" object - is this something he made up or is it 
> GTK-standard?  And if it is something he created, does it have to derive 
> from GObject?

maman_file is his made-up gobject:

file = g_object_new (MAMAN_FILE_TYPE, NULL);

Any object you make that you want to be like gobject, you must derive
from gobject.