[maemo-developers] New project idea, pygtk questions, and a toolkit

[From: Ross Burton]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 22:07 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote:
> > >> - There appears to be no hook for gtk.Paned to detect when the user
> > >> is moving / has moved the divider bar.  This would seem to me to be
> > >> the single most important hook.  The only option I've found online is
> > >> to override the size change hook  Am I missing something?
> > >>
> > >
> > > The widget has a "position" property. You could ask to be notified
> > > when that value changes?
> >
> > How is this done?  By subclassing and overriding the attribute?  Or
> > is there a mechanism to tie into notifications?
> 
> Something like g_signal_connect (paned, "notify::position",
> your_callback, your_data) will do the trick.

I've never seen an application that actually needs to know the position,
as GTK+ will resize the widgets on its own without the application
needing to be involved.

Ross
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