Re: very confused: "selection_received" signal

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

beach@ataman.com writes:

> I took a look at "21. Managine Selections" from the Gtk tutorial.
> 
> >From reading the C code in the tutorial, it appears that the signal,
> "selection_received" is supposed to provide a GtkSelectionData
> argument to its selection handler.  But when I run this through a
> marshaller, it appears to give a GTK_TYPE_BOXED -- and when I call
> gtk_type_name on the argument's type, I get "GdkEvent".  Why is this
> happening?  What is the correct way to determine that I'm getting a
> GtkSelectionData argument?  What's the right way to marshal it?

Looks like a 1.0.x bug that has been fixed in the 1.1.x branch.

"selection_received" parameters as in the tutorial, but the
signal is created with incorrect type information. 

Regards,
                                        Owen