Re: continuing/stopping signal emission

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Skip Montanaro <skip pobox com> writes:
> When writing a new signal handler, I *always* have to go back and find an
> example piece of code to remind myself whether I stop signal propagation
> with FALSE or TRUE, because neither one has any mnemonic significance for me
> in this context.  How difficult would it be to add a new enum to gtk that
> defines symbols that are more suggestive of the author's intended action?
> Something like:
> 
>     typedef enum
>     {
>       GTK_CONTINUE_PROPAGATION = FALSE,
>       GTK_STOP_PROPAGATION = TRUE
>     } GtkSignalPropagationChoices;
> 
> I write this not being certain I have the values correct, but I know the
> names will mean something to me if I see them.  ;-)
> 

That would be a bit nicer I agree, but probably not possible in the
2.0 timeframe at least.

Havoc