Re: Mouse Motion

[Eric Harlow <linuxgeek yahoo com>]

Which signals are you masking for? 

GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK?
GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK?

 -ERic


---SEGV <mlepage@cgocable.net> wrote:
>
> I'm having a devil of a time getting mouse motion to work with my
drawing area
> widget. I've followed the scribble example to the best of my
ability. That is,
> I've:
> 
> 1) connected my signal function to the drawing area widget
> 2) ensured that those events are masked properly
> 3) written a mouse motion callback that prints out a line
> 
> What happens is, my callback only seems to be called when the
pointer first
> enters my widget. It doesn't get called repeatedly as I move the
pointer around.
> 
> Now, I have a timeout callback being called 30 times per second. I'm
not sure if
> that interferes with the mouse motion (I can't see why), but I can
see how that
> might make it appear that I only get them when first entering the
widget (like,
> if they are cut off by the timeout?).
> 
> Any ideas? I'd like to do lasso selection, dragging, autoscrolling,
etc. Not too
> hard, but difficult when you can't get motion notify events!
> 
> -- 
> SEGV    http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/
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