Re: Gtk::EntryCompletion persists in default behavior after connecting

[Krzesimir Nowak <qdlacz gmail com>]

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:25 +0545, Jason Curole wrote:
> I know this unanswered thread is quite old (so old that I cannot
> figure out how to directly reply to the original message), but I
> recently struggled with this same issue and rather serendipitously
> stumbled upon the solution.  So, for future newbies like me and
> Krzesimir if he is still listening, the problem for me (and I believe
> for the code below as well) is that you have to tell 'connect' to
> connect your signal handler to the signal before it connects default
> signal handler.  For the example below, that is done as:
> 
> 	m_ref_name_compl->signal_match_selected().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this,
> &ComplWindow::on_match_selected), false);
> 
> Note the false as the second argument to connect.  By default this
> argument is true meaning connect after default.  And be certain to
> return true so the default handler is not called.
> 
> Find out more at:
> 
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGlib_1_1SignalProxy0.html#d6c26072ea85fe6e61895b0750421e92
> 
> 
> Jason

Oh yeah, I figured it myself at last, but I didn't bother myself with
writing a solution. Or forgot to do this, I don't remember. But thanks
for writing this for other people.

Krzesimir Nowak