Re: delete event for contained widget does not work

[Deekshit Mantampady <dmantamp gmail com>]

Thank you very much. That worked.

On 10/2/05, Daniel Pekelharing <legendstar gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I notice that you're connecting the entry with "destroy_event",
> I think you're wanting the "destroy" signal...
>
> Hope this helps
>
> - Daniel
>
> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 11:39 +0530, Deekshit Mantampady wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >    I have an entry in  window with containment as
> >    window > vbox > hbox >entry. (Code pasted below).
> >   I registered for window delete_event, I call destroy on window, in
> > the callback. I was expecting it to destroy the etry also. In that
> > case destroy/delete event callback for entry should be called. But it
> > does not happen.
> >   In my real application, I need to free up memory allocated for a
> > data structure(application specific) associated with the entry. I
> > cannot do it when window is deleted.
> >
> > Is there any way to catch, the event when the entry or any such widget
> > is deleted ?
> >
> > Please help me.
>
> --
> Daniel Pekelharing
> <legendstar gmail com>