Re: GtkSwitch â lack of specific signal

[Colomban Wendling <lists ban herbesfolles org>]

Le 05/03/2011 16:36, Tadej BorovÅak a Ãcrit :
> Hello.
>
> > I checked.   notify::active is not mentioned anywhere in any of those!     (I used my browser's find  -  
> > can you find it mentioned somewhere?)
> > Cheers,   John Lumby                                           
>
> Those two links were just examples that demonstrate how signal handler's
> prototype can be obtained. Notify signal is part of GObject.
>
> When searching for a signals that are relevant to particula widget, you
> start by examining signals listed in widget's API docs, after those
> signals you inspect signals of it's parent, ... (API docs for each
> widget have a section named "Object Hierarchy" that lists relationships
> of objects).
And the syntax of signals is "signal-name::detail" [1], with the
"::detail" part being optional (and rarely used, the only common use is
with GObjet's notify signal [2]).


Cheers,
Colomban

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/signal.html#signal-detail
[2]
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#GObject-notify