Re: Goocanvas::Widget - embedded widget events

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna eclipse co uk>]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 23:11 +0100, Robert Gruendler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As i've found out in the old mailing list, events like button_press_event
> won't be dispatched by the Goocanvas::Widget itself.
> 
> i'm trying to handle events dispatched by the embedded widgets in a
> Goocanvas::Widget, but my callback function doesn't get called:
> 
> 
> Gtk::Button widget;
> Glib::RefPtr<Goocanvas::Widget> wid;
> wid = Goocanvas::Widget::create(widget,10,10,40,40);
> _canvas->get_root_item()->add_child(wid);
> 
> widget.signal_button_press_event().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this, 
> &MyWindow::on_widget_button_press_event));
> 
> 
> Has anyone a hint what i'm missing out here ?

Maybe the button handler is being called first, and returns TRUE so the
signal emission is stopped.

Try connecting to the "event", or "clicked" signals.

Damon