Re: [gedit-list] Capturing key-press-event

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

On 01/17/2011 04:56 AM, Ishan Jayawardena wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to capture key stroke events from the gedit window. To do
> that, I wrote a call back function and tried to connect it to the
> "key-press-event" of GeditView, inside the gedit_view_init() method in
> gedit-view.c,
>
>        g_signal_connect (view,
>                                   "key-press-event",
>                                   G_CALLBACK (gedit_myac_key_press_event),
>                                   NULL);
>
> and the call back function has the following prototype.
>
>        gboolean gedit_myac_key_press_event(GeditView *view, GdkEventKey
> * event, gpointer data);
>
> But this produces a segmentation fault when run. I cannot identiyfy
> the error.
Try running gedit in gdb and see where it crashes. The signal connection 
seems fine to me, maybe it just crashes in your function?

You can also try to use python instead of C.


Jesse
>   I tried connecting the signal from within GeditDocument and
> GeditWindow the same way, but they all gave the same error. What I
> expected was since both GeditWindow and GeditView derive from
> GtkWidget, I would be able to connect my call back function to
> GtkWidget's "key-press-event". But this was not successful. Can you
> tell me what my method is not working? How can I correctly capture key
> stroke events?
>
> Thank you.