Re: entries and guile-gui

[Neil Jerram]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> It looks like #f now (Gtk+ 2.0) means "carry on calling other handlers
>> for this signal" and non-#f (which includes the unspecified value)
>> means "don't call any other handlers",
>
> Yes, that's the return to give for a gdk event callback.  Some events
> might have no further dispatch anyway, so the return may not matter.

Thanks.

>> and I guess this was not the case in the past (Gtk+ 1.2).
>
> There's certainly been changes in the dispatch area (for the gtk 2
> "closures" stuff), but I thought the return from a handler got passed
> up to gtk in both the 1.2 and 2.0 code.
>
> (In the 1.2 code I think it's inner_callback_marshal putting "ans"
> from the scheme call into the args with sgtk_scm2ret.)

There may be some other factor then.  I'm going to leave this for now
though; I'll come back to it if the issue/question crops up again.

Regards,
     Neil