Re: signal within a signal handler

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 08:26 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> I'm curious, is it legal to emit a signal within a handler for another
> signal? 

Yes, absolutely.

>  The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to do such a thing
> and I keep getting a segfault when the event occurs.

gdb or valgrind will give more information.

> 
> for example, I have a custom widget that has defined an
> on_button_press_event function to handle button_press_event signals. 
> Inside that handler, I want to emit another signal called
> signal_selected.  When I emit the signal with no handlers connected to
> it, it seems to work fine.  When I connect any handler functions to
> the signal_selected signal, I get a segfault, even if the handler
> function does nothing more than return true.
> 
> This is the first time I've tried creating and emitting my own
> signals, and I"m getting rather frustrated.  Anybody have any tips?

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