Re: I guess this is a newbie type question.

[Joern Reder <joern netcologne de>]

Brian Avis wrote:

> I have a button like so.
>
> $button = new Gtk::Button("Test");
> $button->signal_connect("clicked", \&print_test($begin_pay_period, 
> $YEAR, $days_in_year));
> $button->show();

Try this:

  $button->signal_connect("clicked", \&print_test, $begin_pay_period, $YEAR, $days_in_year);

The way you wrote it, the print_test subroutine is called immediately, 
because you pass parameters to it (this is the old perl4 style 
subroutine call). A reference to the result of the subroutine call will
be passed to signal_connect, which is not what you want.

The code above passes the subroutine ref and your parameters seperately
as parameters to the signal_connect method. Then Gtk will give the 
parameters to your subroutine, when the signal handler is called.

Regards,

Joern

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