Re: GTK signals question.

[Chris Angelico <rosuav gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Chris Moller <moller mollerware com> wrote:
> I'm writing an app, that among a lot of other stuff, has three mutually
> interacting spinbuttuns, i.e., if I increment spinbutton A, its callback
> then updates values in B and C.  B and then would try to update A, and C,
> etc., resulting in a bottomless recursion.  So, what I need to do is, while
> I'm in A's callback, block the B and C callbacks; while in in B, block A and
> C and so on.

Are you simply setting the three to the same value? If so, just check
first to see if it's already that value, and if it is, don't set it.
That's a technique that's worked for me since my earliest GUI
programming days on VX-REXX... great system, that, pity it's bound to
the obscure and forgotten platform of OS/2! :)

ChrisA