Re: gtk_bindings_activate

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 19:16 +0300, Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:
>   
> > Hi! I think there is a bug in the gtk_bindings_activate from
> > gtkbindings.
> > I'm not sure, thus I didn't open it.
> >
> > Here is example of what happens:
> >
> >     GtkWidget *entry;
> >     entry = gtk_entry_new (); 
> > //... Some routines like settext
> >   int modifiers = 0;
> >   modifiers |= GDK_CONTROL_MASK;
> > gtk_bindings_activate(G_OBJECT(entry),118,modifiers); //118 is the
> > keycode of 'V', and it works (text is pasted). 
> > gtk_bindings_activate(G_OBJECT(entry),1741,modifiers);
> > /*
> > 1741 is the code of Cyrillic_em, which is located on the same physical
> > key as 'V'. So thei shortcut should work too, but
> > gtk_bindings_activate returns FALSE. 
> > What's wrong? Should it work or the idea of gtk_bindings_activate in
> > something else?
> > */
> >     
>
> The full handling is only present when you use 
> gtk_bindings_activate_event(). By the time that you go from an event to
> a keyval, needed information has been lost.
>
> - Owen
>
> (gtk_bindings_activate() is basically just there for compatibility - it
> existed before the fancy handling that does the Cyrillic vs. Latin on
> the same key was implemented.)
>   

Forgive me if I didn't understand the problem correctly, but isn't it
the same as:
you turn on Russian keyboard layout, you press Ctrl-C (C meaning
English key on the keyboard, it generates Russian S), and nothing
happens. Neither for accelerators (gtk_accel_* stuff) nor for
keybindings (Ctrl-C in GtkEntry). Is it supposed to work? Because
it doesn't (same thing in KDE). I thought it was just one of those
things why Linux sucks ;)

Best regards,
Yevgen