-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 3. Writing your own signals</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="libsigc++"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="libsigc++"><link rel="prev" href="ch02s04.html" title="Disconnecting"><link rel="next" href="ch03s02.html" title="What about return values?"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 3. Writing your own signals</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s04.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch03s02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="sec-writing"></a>Chapter 3. Writing your own signals</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="ch03.html#idp49744256">Quick recap</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="ch03s02.html">What about return values?</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="idp49744256"></a>Quick recap</h2></div></div></div><p>If all you want to do is use gtkmm, and connect your functionality to its
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signals, you can probably stop reading here.</p><p>You might benefit from reading on anyway though, as this section is going to
be quite simple, and the 'Rebinding' technique from the next section is
occasionally useful.</p><p>We've already covered the way the types of signals are made up, but lets