Re: GSignal convenience functions

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

James Henstridge <james daa com au> writes:
> It seems that one of the things that is holding up use of GObject is that
> it is more difficult to use the GSignal functions than the old GtkSignal
> ones.  To try and get things moving a bit, I put together a patch that
> adds g_signal_new, g_signal_emit, g_signal_emitv and
> g_signal_connect_cclosure functions that make signals more convenient to
> use from C.
>

Crap, I did this yesterday too. ;-) 
 
> I have done a little testing of these functions, and they seem to work
> well.  One bit of ugly code is putting the instance variable in the GValue
> array.  At the moment, I misuse the collect_value function for the type
> (if it is available) to set the value, or just set it as a G_TYPE_POINTER
> value.  This could probably be cleaned up a bit more.

I handled this by giving up on g_signal_emit() and doing
g_object_emit_signal().

Not before I was sitting their wondering why we support emitting a
signal on an unclassed object though. ;-)

Havoc