Re: a queseion about gtk_emit_signal_by_name

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:52:04PM -0700, tigerlei wrote:
> I want to send a signal to a GtkDrawingarea to call it re-draw its contents
> and I used such code:
> /********************/
> gtk_signal_emit_by_name(drawingarea1,"expose_event");

You have to pass all arguments the signal handler takes:

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#GtkWidget-expose-event

Anyway, this is the wrong method to redraw a widget, use
gtk_widget_queue_draw().

Yeti


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