Re: Canvas question

[Loban Amaan Rahman <loban enigma caltech edu>]

> Hi everyone,
> The program I'm working on has a canvas, thats got lots of little rectangle
> canvasitems (cells) in a grid formation, which each receive events.
> Now if the mouse button is pressed, the the handler registers that (say)
> cell 1,1 is
> the start of the selection. Then if I drag the mouse it draws another
> rectangle from
> 1,1 to the mouse pointer, then when I release the mouse pointer, the handler
> is
> supposed to get the end of the selection, by which cell receives the event.
> The problem is, that the cell that received the buttonpressed event, also
> receives
> all the move events and the buttonrelease event.
> Is there any way to make the cells that the mouse pointer passes over in
> between
> receive the events instead of the original?

What you want should happen by default. How about posting some code snippets
where you declare and attach the signal handlers. You might be making a 
mistake there.

	= L