Re: signal functions in a package module file

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:31 +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> muppet <scott asofyet org> writes:
> > hide the dialog window in response to the delete-event,
>
> Could gtk_widget_hide_on_delete() be wrapped to help that?  I guess
> you'd have to say \&Gtk2::Widget::hide_on_delete, which is a bit of a
> mouthful.

  $dialog->signal_connect(delete_event => sub { $dialog->hide(); TRUE; });

is less of a mouthful. :-)

hide_on_delete() is mostly a C convenience function because C does not
have closures: I wouldn't bind that inside an high-level language that
does have them.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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