On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 08:31 +0200, David Necas (Yeti) wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:33:30PM -0800, yinglcs2@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > How can I add a signal handler for gtk_main_quit()? > > gtk_main_quit() is not an action of any object, so how it > could have a signal handler? > > > I mean there are multiple places in my application > > which calls gtk_main_quit(), but I want it to call a > > 'cleanup handler' as part of the exit sequence. > > See gtk_quit_add(). gtk_main_quit() doesn't exit the program, it simply returns from the inner-most gtk_main_iteration(), typically called by gtk_run(). therefore, all cleanup can go right after you return from gtk_run(). gtk_main_quit() is quite problematic if you ever use recursive invocations of gtk_run()/gtk_main_iteration(). not impossible to use, but it took me a long time to figure out a reliable way to exit a program that was potentially nested within 2 or even 3 levels of gtk_main_iteration(). --p ps. the solution was to add gtk_main_quit() as an idle callback _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
