I am updating some code from using libglade to GtkBuilder, which is supposed to be the way of the future.
With gtk.glade, you could call glade_xml.signal_autoconnect(...)
repeatedly to connect signals onto objects of different classes corresponding to different windows in the program. However Builder.connect_signals
seems to work only once, and (therefore) to give warnings about any handlers that aren't defined in the first class that's passed in.
I realize I can connect them manually but this seems a bit laborious. (Or for that matter I could use some getattr hackery to let it connect them through a proxy to all the objects...)
Is it a bug there's no function to hook up handlers across multiple objects? Or am I missing something?
Someone else has a similar problem http://www.gtkforums.com/about1514.html which I assume means this can't be done.
Here's what I currently have. Feel free to use it, or to suggest something better:
class HandlerFinder(object):
"""Searches for handler implementations across multiple objects.
"""
# See <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4637792> for why this is
# necessary.
def __init__(self, backing_objects):
self.backing_objects = backing_objects
def __getattr__(self, name):
for o in self.backing_objects:
if hasattr(o, name):
return getattr(o, name)
else:
raise AttributeError("%r not found on any of %r"
% (name, self.backing_objects))