On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 15:56 -0500, Charles Packer wrote: > If I code a button widget like this (I'm using the version > of GTK that came with Fedora Core 5)... > > GtkWidget *B = gtk_button_new_with_label (Label); > g_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (B), "button-press-event", > G_CALLBACK (Happened), "HELLO"); > > and the callback is this... > > Happened (GtkWidget *W, gpointer Data) { > g_print ("ButtonHappened...|%s|\n", (char *) Data); > } no, the callback for the ::button-press-event signal has this signature: static gboolean on_button_press_event (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventButton *event, gpointer user_data); > Now, "button-press-event" is in lists of event types such as you > find in the GTK 2.0 tutorial at > http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/a2769.html yes, and no. a ::button-press-event is really a low-level signal which you shouldn't be using unless you know what it is for. what you want is the GtkButton::clicked signal, not the GtkWidget::button-press-event signal. the signature for the ::clicked signal is: static void on_clicked (GtkButton *button, gpointer user_data); see: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkButton.html http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/c491.html#SEC-NORMALBUTTONS ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list