Re: Getting keyboard state.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com> writes: 
> Rather than creating handlers and maintaining state for this, you can get the
> information along with the pointer position from anywhere in your code:
>
> int x, y;
> GdkModifierType modifiers;
> gdk_window_get_pointer(window, &x, &y, &modifiers);
>
> ... the modifier keys will be OR-ed together GdkModifierType values.

Maintaining the state is much more correct, the get_pointer() solution
is a giant race condition.

Havoc