[Glade-devel] [glade-3] Widget selection not working well

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 09:43, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
>  Damon wrote:
> > Currently it is impossible to select some widgets in glade-3, e.g.
> > GtkLabel, GtkEntry.
> >
> > Like drawing selection rectangles, this was quite tricky to 
> > get working in glade-2, and I even had to change it slightly 
> > to work with GTK+ 2.6.
> >
> > Any objections to porting the glade-2 code over (and 
> > tidying/simplifying it if possible)?
> >
> > glade-2 now connects to the "event" signal for all widgets 
> > (including any internal children). It does this as this 
> > signal is emitted before "button_press"/"button_release", so 
> > it gives Glade a better chance to intercept signals before 
> > the widget's own code is run.
>
> Ok, no problem with me.

I've done this. Actually most of the existing Glade 3 code was OK,
except for a small bug.

Selection works a lot better now. Though I expect a few problems to crop
up, especially when we add support for GtkFixed/GtkLayout.

Damon