Re: gtk2-perl CVS 20021017

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Dermot Musgrove <dermot glade perl connectfree co uk> writes:

[...]

> 2) The old perl way of connecting signals allowed for multiple items
> of data to be passed as args after the callback arg. I don't know how
> it works but the effect is that the args to the callback can be got by:
>   my ($widget, @data) = @_;
>
> If the callback is for an event, the event structurea is added at the
> end so a signal handler could get the args eg:
>   my ($class, $data1, $data2, $data3, $event) = @_;
>
> depending on how the signal was connected. I am not sure what the best
> answer is - I remember some threads on the gtk-perl list ages ago.
>
> I guess that it might be simplest to insist that all data is passed in
> an anonymous array/hash so that only a ref is passed - which is what
> happens already I guess :)

I'd favor the only-one-scalar version: it's cleaner and probably
less error prone.

> 3) I have written (and attached) a Gtk2::Test module and a script that
> will generate test scripts for each widget mentioned in the gtk2 docs. 
> These scripts can be extended as methods are added. I guess that if you
> want to use them it would be best to add them to the t/ directory after 
> the widgets are added. 

Good! The more automatic tests we have, the best it is. How do
you think it may integrate with my previous mail about automatic
tests?


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