Re: [gtk-list] Re: Tutorial code converted to Perl

[fractture <fract sprintmail com>]

tile@primenet.com wrote:

> On 16-Apr-98 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > This exposes a deficiency in my understanding, then.  Is the tutorial code
> > doing this unnecessarily?
> >
> > From the looks of things, gtk_signal_connect_object is completely unneeded
> > in Perl because you can just pass a coderef that calls the appropriate
> > object's event code.
> >
> >  - J<
>
> I was just looking through the C Gtk tutorial (on gtk.org) in section four.
> The line you stated in earlier threads has a comment above it which says that
> the statement should send a "destroy" signal to the given window which should
> then kill the window.  It sounds like it could be a tutorial error because
> given the current circumstances and what I've tested... gtk_main_quit()
> (Gtk->main_quit in Perl) kills the whole Gtk+ app and stops gtk_main ()
> (Gtk->main in Perl).  Perhaps we should notify the tutorial maintainer(s)
> about this discrepancy.

First off, what tutorial are you tlaking about?  In mine, section 4 is about
packing boxes.
Also, from what I understand thus far, gtk_main_quit() is supposed to do exactly
that, kill gtk_main()
and thus the entire app.