I'd like to change the way signal connection in meld is done. The "usual" (signal_autoconnect) method of signal connection in pygtk has some shortcomings:
1. violation of the don't-repeat-yourself principle as you need to add the signal in glade and also to your python code. 2. signal_autoconnect also doesn't help you discover typos in handler names. 3. You can't connect signals which don't have named widgets. e.g. there is no way to connect a scrolledwindows adjustments except manually. It's a wart to have both manual and automatic connections. I've added code to connect handlers based on method names which avoids all the above issues. http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/meld/trunk/gnomeglade.py?r1=1084&r2=1126 Unnamed widgets need to be given names before calling. e.g. self.vadjustment = self.scrolledwindow.get_vadjustment() gnomeglade.connect_signal_handlers(self) Comments? Stephen. There's an old post which has more details. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08468.html _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
