Re: Middle click paste in St.Entry

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

I did: you should create a new event that has the correct source actor
*or* add internal API to submit the keys to the search entry.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

On 8 July 2014 18:40, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > except that the source actor in the event will be wrong, and if I
> > added a check for that inside clutter_actor_event() (something which
> > would make sense for me to add) then you'd get a warning and the event
> > would be rejected.
> >
> > you'd have to synthesize a new event from the one passed, though to be
> > fair that's be a fairly evil thing to do.
>
>
> For reference, we already do this to re-type key events into the search
> field into the overview. Feel free to recommend a better way for us to do
> this though:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/viewSelector.js#n509
>
> > if you want to handle middle-click-to-paste by middle-clicking
> > anywhere other than an entry (something I honestly don't think would
> > be good to have), then you should connect to the button-release-event
> > on that other actor, and do what StEntry does when it receives a
> > middle click. maybe even add a method to StEntry to paste the contents
> > from a specific clipboard into its text buffer.
> >
> > ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
> >
> >
> > On 8 July 2014 17:47, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Sam Bull <sam hacking sent com> wrote:
> > > > Ah, that makes sense. Is there any way that might be fixed? When
> > > > clicking anywhere else on the note, the code is simply:
> > > >
> > > >         this._box.connect('button-press-event', function () {
> > > >             clutterText.grab_key_focus();
> > > >         });
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to propagate the middle click through?
> > >
> > >
> > > Not very pretty, but something like this should work:
> > >
> > >          this._box.connect('button-press-event', function (actor, event)
> > > {
> > >              clutterText.event(event, false);
> > >          });
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