Re: Using (or not using) sigc::mem_fun with the G_CALLBACK macro

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:39 -0500, Bob Caryl wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I am using the GtkHTML widget to create a help viewer for my 
> application.  It works well, but I cannot use gtkmm to create my 
> application window because The Compiler
> 
>  <Bob drops to the floor and genuflects>
> 
> just freaks out when I try to use a derived window class-member function 
> as an argument for the GTK G_CALLBACK macro (using a call to 
> sigc::mem_fun() ) when doing a signal connection to the GtkHTML object.  
> Hence, I have been forced to write the entire thing as a standalone 
> application using only GTK :-(

sigc::mem_fun() produces a slot. a slot is in almost no way related to a
ptr-to-function as required for GTK C callbacks. 

if you want to use C++ and sigc++, plan on using gtkmm, not GTK
directly.

--p