Re: [glade--]Keypress event for DrawingArea

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 22:57, Mark Jones wrote:
>
> > I am trying to get a keypress event to happen whenever the drawing area 
> > is in focus (by the mouse being over it or the mouse has clicked on it 
> > to bring it into focus), and have added my drawing area to an event box. 
> > I have added to the keypress event function a cerr statement so I can 
> > see if it works, but it never does.  I have successfully added a mouse 
> > button click and a mouse button release event (and their cerr statements 
> > are invoked), but it just doesn't seem to work for a key press.  Is this 
> > supported?  All three events have been assigned to the event box and not 
> > the drawing area from within glade.
>
> You also need to make sure that the widget's event mask has been set so
> that you receive events like button presses and key presses.
>
> See the 'Events' property on the Common page.
> (I hope glade-- supports it!)

Yes it does.
  Christof