Thanks for the clarification. I'm surely not the only one that didn't know this.
-----Original Message----- From: Tristan Van Berkom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:26 PM To: Paul Pogonyshev Cc: Boncek, John; gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: hy;hen/underscore equivalence in signal names? On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:06:21 +0200, Paul Pogonyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boncek, John wrote: > > I typed an underscore instead of a hyphen by mistake in a GtkEntry signal > > name, "insert_text" instead of "insert-text", at one of 2 places the name > > was used. It worked. I inverted both of them and it still worked. > > Apparently these are interchangeable, at least in this one instance, in > > GTK 2.2.4. > > They are interchangeable, with the only requirement that you stick to > either of them in every string. I.e. you can use "my-long-signal-name" > or "my_long_signal_name", but not "my_long-signal_name". I'm not sure > why GLib people chose it to be this way, but I appreciate it, because > hyphens are my second best word separator after spaces :) They are interchangeable but wait a second, Owen told me (a few months ago) on this list that its safer to use hyphens in the case of property notification signals; i.e. g_signal_connect (... "notify::my-long-property-name" ...); I guess there was some bug or technical reason why using underscores in this case wasn't working. (ofcourse this is in the case of property names and not signal names, I just though you ought to know). Cheers, -Tristan _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
