Re: emits a signal?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Axel <axel azerty netcourrier com> writes:

> >On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:00:39PM +0100, Axel wrote:
> >
> >> is it possible to emit a signal "arbitrarly", in a function, in
> >> example, make a widget emit a signal "activate" without have to
> >> click on it, or juste like gtk_signal_emit("my_signal")  ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >What's wrong with gtk_signal_emit?
> >
> >
> >
> I just imagined a function which send signal like that, I didn ' t
> know it really exist :)

actually you should use gtk_widget_activate() instead which will emit
the signal for you. Such functions exist for most signals so you
should rarely have to use g_signal_emit().


Salut, Sven