Re: GTK+ 1.2 key press and release events

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ian Thompson-Bell <ian ruffrecords uklinux net> writes:

> In Xlib, when you press and hold a key you get an initial keypress event, 
> followed by more keypress events as the keyboard auto-repeats and when you 
> finaly release it you get a keyrelease event.

That's news to me. :-) GTK+-2.0 enables this behavior via the XKB
extension when available, and when not, emulates it by, when it
receives a key press, seeing if there is release pending with
the same timestamp.
 
> In gtk+ 1.2 when I press and hold a key I get a keypress event immediately 
> followed by a key press event.  When I release the key there is no 
> corresponding keyrelease event..
>
> How do I get gtk to to behave like Xlib?

Well, if you look at the GTK+-2.0 sources, you can see how it gets
XLib to behave like GTK+.

Regards,
                                        Owen