Re: passing arg 2 of `g_timeout_add' from incompatible pointer type

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Yiannis wrote:
> OK, I always get the following warning and I never understood why.
> passing arg 2 of `g_timeout_add' from incompatible pointer type
>
> A typical example of my code would be:
>
> gboolean
> foo(void)
> {
> return TRUE;
> }
>
> g_timeout_add(500, foo, NULL);
>
> Any clues?
> Thanks!

It should be "gboolean foo (gpointer user_data)", the GFunc will
be called with the third arg of g_timeout_add() as user_data.

You can also safely ignore the user_data as you did - just cast
foo like this:
    g_timeout_add(500, (GFunc)foo, NULL);

Cheers,
                    -Tristan