Re: [Gaim-devel] Student Developer

[Eric P. <al...@gm...>]

i'm trying to get a good handle on how the event handling works with
gaim-text.  i've done quite a bit of event handling with Java, but not
much with Gtk+.style events. so a few questions follow:

1.  where do the events get mapped to their callback functions?  the
only place i've seen anything is gntui.c::gnu_ui_init where the
actions get mapped.  so I see how those are mapped to the wm.  but how
are the events triggered?  how does the gtk thread know to send
"Accounts" when I select that option in the menu?

2.  all the special hotkeys that are mapped to move windows around and
whatnot...where are those events caught?

3.  when libgnt/gntmain.c::g_main_loop_run starts, where does control
transfer to?  i'm tempted to think that it just goes into a wait state
waiting for events to trigger callbacks, but there are several things
i think that remain to be initialized still.

4.  lastly, when does libgnt/gntwm.c::gnt_wm_init get called?

as i was writing this i came across g_signal_connect and think that
might answer some of these questions.  but if you have something to
add, i would muchly appreciate it.

i know it sounds like i've never worked with event driven before, i
assure you, i know the concept, i'm just a little new to Gtk+ style
event handling, and am excited about learning how it works so i can
get on to the more important things involved in working with
gaim-text.  some of which involve improving the wm.

On 3/19/07, Adil <ad...@ya...> wrote:
>
> --- Eric Polino <al...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > i'm doing some research here and get caught up with the
> > gm_main_loop_run() calls in gnt_main() in libgnt/gntmain.c  i can't
> > find those funtions anywhere in all the source.  i'm guessing it's a
>
> g_main_loop_run starts the main event-loop in GLib, which manages the
> events, signals, timeouts and the whole lot. The documentation for that is
> at
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html
>
> Sadrul
>
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