[Glade-users] Drawing area click signal

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:22, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> I'm using Glade-2 and gtkmm to develop a C++ gtk application. I am
> having trouble getting some signals to work. I make the object in
> glade, assign a signal to a function, save and build. The function
> prototype shows up in the code, but no matter what I put into the
> function, it doesn't execute. Here's a breakdown of my results:
>
> toggle button: click event works
> normal button: click doesn't work
> window: can't find any event that means "created" or "show" that works
> drawing area: click doesn't work, show doesn't work
> menus: won't compile with menus
>
> Can anybody point me in a direction where I could find a way to make
> some of these things work? I know when I was using C with glade, I had
> to put in a single-line to enable the click signal on the drawing
> area, but I can't find a parallel in C++. Thanks!

You may need to set the "Events:" property to get the signals you want.
Widgets only get the events they specifically ask for.

Damon