Re: Closing a window to trigger the 'delete_event' signal

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 28, 2004, at 8:57 PM, Francois Marier wrote:

> So is this the idiomatic way to do close a Window in GTK2 ?
>
>   sub {
>     unless ($window->signal_emit('delete_event',
>             Gtk2::Gdk::Event->new("nothing")))
>     {
>       $window->destroy();
>     }
>   }

i'm not very fond of emitting signals directly outside of a widget's 
implementation, so although this works, i generally avoid it.


> I was somehow expecting to be able to do something like 
> $window->close() and have it check the signal and do the right thing.  
> All the tutorials I've seen either call $window->destroy() or 
> Gtk2->main_quit directly, bypassing the delete_event completely.

if you really want the checking, what you do is put the checking into 
another function and call that function from both the delete-event 
handler and the button click.


  sub my_app_window_destroy {
     # do your custom stuff, and call destroy when you want it destroyed
  }

  $window->signal_connect (delete_event => \&my_app_window_destroy);
  $button->signal_connect (clicked => \&my_app_window_destroy);


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