Re: listen to click events on global.stage/performance between actor button-press-event and stage button-press-event

[Amy C <mathematical coffee gmail com>]

On 4 June 2012 13:30, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> Since we want clicks in windows to go to the appropriate place, we
> have to do special magic to make sure that X is nice and cozy. I'm not
> quite sure how expensive this work is for 50 penguin actors though,
> and we could probably optimize it a lot, but the main thing is that
> you need to add the actor to the chrome:
>
>    let rect = new Clutter.Actor({ x: 50, y: 50, width: 200, height:
> 200, background_color:
> Clutter.Color.from_static(Clutter.StaticColor.YELLOW), reactive: true
> });
>    rect.connect('button-press-event', function() { /* ... */ });
>    Main.layoutManager.addChrome(rect);
>
> This will track the actor's allocation and make sure the Shell is
> aware that it wants to receive pointer events and things like that.
>
> --
>   Jasper

Thanks, the missing link was Main.layoutManager.addChrome.