Re: Language bindings and popup_menu and show_help signals

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 13:01 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:35 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > 1. The GtkWidget::popup_menu signal is a G_SIGNAL_ACTION signal (used
> > only for keybindings), and we were told not to wrap these in language
> > bindings because the API could change, as did some TreeView signals
> > between 2.0 and 2.2.
> 
> The API cannot change, by definition :)

What definition? If some G_SIGNAL_ACTION signals should be wrapped, how
can I know which ones should be and which ones should not be wrapped?

> > 2. Philip thinks he needs to connect to this signal in order to
> > implement a derived widget.
> 
> Both are public.  Really well-behaved widgets should implement them.  I
> don't know if any of the GNOME user documentation mentions the default
> Ctrl-F1 and Shift-F1 bindings for "tooltip" and "what's this",
> respectively; I don't know of any widget that implements that signal,
> either.
> 
> [
> popup_menu is documented here: 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-migrating-checklist.html#checklist-popup-menu
> and some hot keybinding pr0n:
> http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/2004-GUADEC/html/img10.html
> ]
> 
>   Federico
> 
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