Re: key release events

[Ray Haleblian <rayh infohouse com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ray Haleblian wrote:
> > i'm new to GTK. i modified the hello world example to examine how key
> > presses and releases are handled. however, i don't appear to get key
> > release events. i there a special initialization? i use
> >
>
> Call gtk_widget_add_events(window, GDK_KEY_RELEASE_MASK);
>
> Havoc

thank you, this works. it appears to me that keyboard autorepeat produces
a
keydown event and then a keyup event. i think this incorrect; autorepeat
should produce only a keydown event. i care because the MIDI controller
i'm working on would like to know what keys on the keyboard are being held
down.
other implementations of the app which talk directly to the keyboard
hardware
or use svgalib work in this way.
is there an argument for the current behaviour? or a way to alter it? for
example,
suppressing autorepeat? (time now to RTFM)
cheers, rayh