Re: Buttons within buttons

["Richard Warren" <rew primagraphics co uk>]

> Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> Vanni Brutto <zanac libero it> writes:
> > [CUT]
> > > works.  Any mouse actions I perform seem to be grabbed by the
> > > underlying
> > > button and count as a click on that rather than on the spin-button.  I
> > > therefore can't change the value in the spin button at all - it simply
> > > runs
> > > my main button-clicked handler.
> >
> > I think that it is a bug of GTK+ 2.0, 'cause it break also some API
> > for example gtk_clist_set_column_widget.
> >
> > Indeed that code worked in older GTK+ 2.0 release and also in the
> > stable 1.2,
> > so i think that it is a bug.
> >
> > Someone could confirm that?
>
> I think it probably is a bug - my initial guess was that the
> button_press handler for some widget returned the wrong value (FALSE
> instead of TRUE), but now I think it may be the stacking order of the
> input-only windows used to trap events. Probably the input-only
> windows should have the same stacking as the widgets themselves.
>
> I could be wrong though.
>
> Havoc

I can confirm that this problem still occurs in GTK+ V1.3.15 if that's any
help!  Spin-buttons inside other buttons still can't be changed through the
GUI.

Regards,
Richard.