Re: gtkmozembed signaling

Philippe Laporte wrote:

> Hi,
>      I have a small question about some design in the gtkmozembed code.
>
> For the LINK_MESSAGE signal
>
> The signaling code has
>
> mLinkMessage = aStatus;
> gtk_signal_emit(GTK_OBJECT(mOwner->mOwningWidget), 
> moz_embed_signals[LINK_MESSAGE]);
>
>
> The callback sequence then subsequently executes:
>
> if (embedPrivate->mWindow){
>   *getter_Copies(embedString) = 
> NEW_TOOLKIT_STRING(embedPrivate->mWindow->mLinkMessage);
>    retval = strdup(embedString);
> }
>
> return retval;
>
>
>
> Why do you not pass the link message string as an argument to the 
> handler in the first place? 

No reason, really.  It is because that is how it has always been.  And 
there's no reason to break callers at this point.

--Chris