Re: [g-a-devel] How to tell if a button has been clicked?

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

Quiring, Sam wrote:
> Greetings,
>  
> Suppose the user of the Gnome desktop does this:
>  
> 1. runs and app with a button on it
> 2. moves the mouse on top of the button
> 3. presses the left mouse button down on the button
> 4. moves the mouse off the button
> 5. releases the left mouse button
>  
> When you do this, the button is not clicked, that is, the signal 
> handler in the app for "clicked" is not called.
>  
> What at-spi event sequence would reveal this to an accessibility 
> application?   The best solution I've come up with so far is to record 
> the bounding box of the widget on which the mouse was pressed and, in 
> the button-release handler, check to see if the mouse is still inside 
> that bounding box.
Yes, that's the way I am thinking of.
>  
> Is there a better way?
>  
> I just finished adding event handlers for 
> */Gtk:GtkWidget:button-press-event/* and 
> */Gtk:GtkWidget:button-release-event/*.  In the above situation my app 
> gets both events and even though the mouse is no longer on the button 
> when the user releases the mouse 
> button, the *Gtk:GtkWidget:button-release-event* source object is the 
> button.  Is this a bug?
We probably need to discuss this in Gtk+ list.

Li