Re: Need new name for connect_object()

Everyone's going to love that sooooooooo much :) but I think you're right, because it doesn't look as if there's going to be a lot of BC-friendliness here anyway. Which brings us back to the question of separate manuals... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrei Zmievski" <andrei@gravitonic.com> To: "Madeleine D." <mmdrake@bctonline.com> Cc: "PHP-GTK Dev" <php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] Need new name for connect_object() > Note that none of the ones I proposed have the current behavior of > connect_object(), actually. I'd like to deprecate that method > completely and make people use the new three. > > -Andrei > > On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Madeleine D. wrote: > > > A - > > > > I see your point. I've never had a call yet to come up with the simple > > version, so I didn't even think of it. But, based on the past few > > months, > > it's probably out there, waiting, in my future. > > > > So, I guess my vote would be for 3 different ones - for clarity's sake. > > > > Madeleine D. > > > > > > At 01:02 PM 3/21/05 -0800, you wrote: > >> Not really. What it does currently is "omit" the signal object, passes > >> the rest of parameters, adding on the user specified-ones at the end. > >> So, if originally the parameters to be passed were ($signal_widget, > >> $col, $row), and we connect it as: > >> > >> $w->connect_object('foo', 'myfoo', $myobj); > >> > >> the parameters it'll pass are ($col, $row, $myobj). > >> > >> I guess what I am asking is whether this behavior is useful at all, or > >> if we would rather really substitute the user specified object instead > >> of the signal one, or not pass any signal parameters at all, or what. > >> Or maybe have a connection function for all three cases: > >> > >> 1) connect normally: pass signal widget plus additional > >> signal-specific > >> parameters > >> 2) connect replace: substitute user-specified object instead of the > >> signal one, and pass additional signal-specific parameters > >> 3) connect simple: pass only user specified parameters > >> > >> -Andrei > >> > >> On Mar 21, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Madeleine D. wrote: > >> > >>> I'm probably being too simplistic here, but what about > >>> > >>> connect_other() > >>> > >>> since it does the same things as connect, including parms, but it > >>> does > >>> it > >>> for another object. > >>> > >>> Madeleine D. > >>> > >> > >> > > -- > PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >