Re: GTK+ 1.2 key press and release events

[Philip Bunce <pjb carmel com>]

At 09:30 PM 3/24/2002 +0000, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
>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.
>
>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?

I needed to add this (thanks to Havoc)

        gtk_widget_get_events (view.text) | GDK_KEY_RELEASE_MASK);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (view.text), "key_release_event",
                            GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(cb_text_key), NULL);



>TIA
>
>Ian
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