Re: Gtk::VolumeButton how to change value without emmiting signal?

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

Mark Roberts wrote:
> Dear Sledge Hammer,
>
> > I am using a Gtk::VolumeButton. I want to change it's value without
> > emmiting singal_value_changed. Is this possible?
>
> I am interested what the list will answer.
>
> I had the same question a few years ago and found that it was the wrong 
> question. My situation was this: when a value changes (triggered by 
> network, program logic, or however) the GUI needs to be updated, and 
> updating the GUI of course changes the value. This leads to a recursive 
> infinite loop.

I normally keep a sigc::connection for my signal handler to the 
value_changed() signal and whenever I want to change the value 
programatically I use a connection.block()/connection.unblock() pair to 
prevent the signal handler from running.

Armin