Re: motion notify question

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

<pavel@klebanov.ne.mediaone.net> writes:
> 
> If my widget captures motion_notify and the mouse button is pressed and
> the button moves out of the widget, motion_notify keeps firing. Why and is
> there a way to disable it?
> 
> Of course I could easily test whether the mouse is inside the widget, but
> still....
> 

X automatically grabs the pointer while a mouse button is pressed, so
during a press gdk_pointer_grab() has effectively been called.
Among other things, this ensures that you always get a button release
event paired with your press event, which simplifies a lot of code.
So this may complicate your life now, but in other cases it won't. ;-)

Havoc