Re: Blocking a signal with unknown handler id?

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Daniel Pekelharing wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone know how one would go about blocking a signal on a widget where
> you don't know the signal handler id?
>
> I have some check menu items which I set depending on various program
> modes... I need to block the "activate" signal before I set it and
> unblock it afterwords, but I don't know the id...
>
> Is there perhaps someway to block all user defined callbacks on a
> widget?
>
> Thanks!
>  

You may want to try g_signal_lookup and g_signal_handlers_block_matched 
where only G_SIGNAL_MATCH_ID is passed.