Re: GtkTextView copy-paste default handler problem

[Tuukka Mäkinen <tuukkamm gmail com>]

Matthew Talbert wrote:
> > I want to restrict copy and paste to just text format. For this I've
> > connected to "copy-clipboard", "cut-clipboard" and "paste-clipboard"
> > signals. Unfortunately this doesn't stop default handlers from being
> > called so everything gets copied twice. I added
> > g_signal_stop_emission_by_name() calls to my signal handlers but it
> > didn't seem to have any effect. I even wrote function that unregisters
> > all GtkTextBuffer serialize and unserialize formats but that didn't help
> > either.
>
> Are your signal handlers returning TRUE or FALSE? FALSE allows the
> event to keep propagating, while TRUE prevents it. Also, which
> function are you using to connect your signal handlers?
> g_signal_connect?
>
> Matthew

Yes I'm using g_signal_connect to connect the signal handlers. Returning
TRUE or FALSE is a good suggestion but unfortunately they are signals
not events so the return type is void.

- Tuukka