Re: GtkBuilder Public API - Last call

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Johan Dahlin wrote:

> Tim Janik wrote:

> > there could conceivably be new flags in the future. also,
> > "object" is different from "swapped". the former should use
> > g_signal_connect_object which needs a GObject argument and
> > auto-disconnects the signal handler if the object argument
> > is disposed. the later also works for void* pointers.
>
> Oh, I knew I missed something.
>
> Let's use this xml attributes for the signal tag;
>
>  name: signal name
>  handler: handler to connect the signal to
>  after: optional, boolean if True, set flags to G_CONNECT_AFTER
>  swapped: optional, boolean if True, set flags to G_CONNECT_SWAPPED
>  object: optional, if set use g_signal_connect_object
>
> user_type and user_data which I proposed doesn't make too much sense, it's
> also difficult to support since you can't (AFAICT) use a GValue as user data.
>
> g_signal_connect_object does not provide a way to send in user data so it
> conflicts with the user data which may be passed in to
> gtk_builder_connect_signals.

well, to be more precise, g_signal_connect_object hardcodes the assumption
that user_data is_a GObject*.

> Not a too big deal I guess, it just needs to be
> documented.
>
> Johan

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ciaoTJ