Re: Gtk2::DrawingArea

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 02:56 Tue 05 Feb     , Mitchell Laks wrote:
>
> Why is the Gtk2::Window eating the key-press events, but not eating the
> pointer-motion events or button-press events
> which seem to propagate nicely to the child Gtk2::DrawingArea.

By virtue of adding the key-press-event mask to the widget's event set,
the drawing area is set up to monitor key-press-event, but is not allowed to
take keyboard focus until you enable it.  You need to do

  $draw->can_focus (TRUE);


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