Re: Mixing GTK+ signal with GTKmm

[Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 17:57, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon quotidian org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:36 -0200, Paulo Flabiano Smorigo wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have a GTKmm application and since last week it's using a c library.
>> I want to create a custom signal in this c library so when an event
>> occurs in this library, my application knows.
>
> Is the C library a Gtk+/gobject-based library?  Glib signals can only be
> used with GObjects.
>
>> How do I implement a signal in this library and link it to a callback
>> in my gtkmm application?
>
> A signal is registered for a GObject using g_signal_new():
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/unstable/gobject-Signals.html#g-signal-new
>
> I recommend reading some existing C Gtk+/Glib projects to see exactly
> how this is done.  Google's code search is often helpful to find
> examples of how a certain function is used in other projects:
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=g_signal_new&sbtn=Search
>
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Hi Jonathon,

Thanks for the reply...

In some code in google code search I found g_signal_new and
gtk_signal_new. What's the difference between both?

Thanks!
Paulo