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OK, you say, that's nice, but what if I want to create my own handlers to
respond when the user adjusts a <code class="classname">Range</code> widget or a
<code class="classname">SpinButton</code>. To access the value of a
<code class="classname">Gtk::Adjustment</code>, you can use the
<code class="methodname">get_value()</code> and <code class="methodname">set_value()</code> methods:
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As mentioned earlier, <code class="classname">Gtk::Adjustment</code> can emit signals.
This is, of course, how updates happen automatically when you share an
<code class="classname">Adjustment</code> object between a
<code class="classname">Scrollbar</code> and another adjustable widget; all adjustable
widgets connect signal handlers to their adjustment's
<code class="literal">value_changed</code> signal, as can your program.
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So, for example, if you have a <code class="classname">Scale</code> widget, and you
want to change the rotation of a picture whenever its value changes, you would
create a signal handler like this:
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<pre class="programlisting">void cb_rotate_picture (Gtk::Widget *picture)
{
picture->set_rotation (adj->value);
...</pre>
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and connect it to the scale widget's adjustment like this:
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<pre class="programlisting">adj.value_changed.connect(sigc::bind<Widget*>(sigc::mem_fun(*this,
&cb_rotate_picture), picture));</pre>
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What if a widget reconfigures the <em class="parameter"><code>upper</code></em> or
<em class="parameter"><code>lower</code></em> fields of its <code class="classname">Adjustment</code>,
such as when a user adds more text to a text widget? In this case, it emits
the <code class="literal">changed</code> signal.
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<code class="classname">Range</code> widgets typically connect a handler to this
signal, which changes their appearance to reflect the change - for example, the
size of the slider in a scrollbar will grow or shrink in inverse proportion to
the difference between the <em class="parameter"><code>lower</code></em> and
<em class="parameter"><code>upper</code></em> values of its
<code class="classname">Adjustment</code>.
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You probably won't ever need to attach a handler to this signal, unless you're
writing a new type of range widget.
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<pre class="programlisting">adjustment->changed();</pre>
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