Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] custom signals?

[Masao M. <mu...@hi...>]

Hi,

On 25 Oct 2003 08:53:52 -0400
Matthew Berg <ga...@go...> wrote:

> In order to keep a clean seperation between different parts of my
> application (an audio player) I started looking into what it would take
> to allow certain dialogs to emit custom signals.  For example, I have a
> subclass of Gtk::FileSelection which reads playlists and extracts
> metadata from the files (song title, artist, etc).  
> 
> Ideally, this widget would be able to emit a "song-selected" signal,
> passing along a Song object (or maybe an array of Song objects, since we
> would get multiple selections when choosing a directory or playlist).
> 
> Anyways... I'm not intimately familiar with the internals of glib/gtk+,
> but it seems that to do this, I'd need to create the new signal with
> signal_new, correct?  I noticed there's code for that, but its marked
> with RBGLIB_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL.
> 
> So am I correct on this?  If so, what's the status on this functionality
> being made part of the stable API?

It's not stable now. Masahiro and I are discussing about this feature 
just now.
I intend to support this feature since next release.
Please wait until next release.

-- 
.:% Masao Mutoh<mu...@hi...>