Re: suspending signal events

[Marco <mscholtn xs4all nl>]

On Thu, 5 May 2005 10:39:35 -0600, John Taber <jtaber johntaber net> wrote:

> Actually nothing inappropriate or wrong is happening - I simply have  
> signals
> connected to the comboboxes so that when the combobox changes,  data gets
> changed, etc.  I just don't want these signals firing when the combobox  
> is
> being repopulated with clear and append.  So I'm just wondering what to  
> use
> like deactivate/activate or signal freeze/unfreeze, set_sensitive,  
> whatever.

you can keep the connection as explained here

http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/apbs03.html

and then block the connection before clearing/repopolating and unblock  
after.
see:  
http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/libsigc2/docs/reference/html/classsigc_1_1slot__base.html#a10

I never actually tried this but i think it should work.

--
Marco