Re: passing arguments to the

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Apr 11, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:

> I was looking at the tutorial of Stephen Wilhelm and here
> http://personal.riverusers.com/~swilhelm/gtkperl-tutorial/ 
> signalsandevents.html

That is, of course, the tutorial for the old gtk+ 1.x Gtk-Perl.  Ross  
sent a link to the tutorial for Gtk2-Perl, which is currently  
incomplete.  (Calling all volunteers, hint, hint ;-)

> it sais the callback can get a list of parameters like this:
...
> So are these one of the differences between the old Gtk and new new
> one or did I misunderstand something ?

Yes, it is one of the differences between Gtk-Perl and Gtk2-Perl.  It  
was a conscious decision to change this, because the Gtk-Perl way both  
differed from the C API reference and made it almost impossible to  
determine reliably where the actual callback arguments started (you  
could have arbitrary numbers of user data args).

This is one of the things described in the Guide to Porting from  
Gtk-Perl to Gtk2-Perl.
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/porting.html

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