Re: [gtk-list] new signal GtkWidget::user_signal?

[Nathan Carl Summers <summersn cs byu edu>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Tim Janik wrote:

> 				     gint       user_type,
> 
> user_type is meant to distinguish different signal emissions by passing
> a.g. an enumeration value that MySignalFunc() could switch() on.

Wouldn't a string be a better choice?  Things like this often get
confused.  You know, libbloat uses 1234 to signal new memory to fill while
libuglymath uses it to signal that the big math problem is done while
libuseless signals it randomly and you can't figure out why, etc, etc.

Or maybe something like
gtk_signal_connect(... "user_signal::bigproblemfinished" ...)

Rockwalrus