Re: [Vala] broken gtk+ binding?

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 14:42 +0000, Phil Housley wrote:
> On 09/12/2007, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 21:32 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> > > Indeed. I looked at gtk+-2.0.vapi to know the prototype and it was
> > >
> > > public signal void clicked ();
> > >
> > > I changed to on_clicked(Gtk.Button btn) and it worked.
> > > But vala did not notice me I passed a function that did not match the
> > > signal prototype? :(
> >
> > Yes, that's obviously a bug in valac, feel free to file it in bugzilla.
> >
> > Jürg
>
> Would you really add to the definitions of every signal?  It seems
> easier to just consider it separate from the "real" parameters.
> Having the emitting instance as first parameter could just be thought
> of as a way to name it, rather than always referring to it as
> "emitter" or something.

Yes, I don't intend to change the signal declarations but it's a bug
that valac didn't complain about the missing sender/emitter parameter in
the handler.

Jürg