Re: problem handling "mouse button press"

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Gregory Babusiaux <gbabusia ulb ac be> writes:
> i got a pixmap on my main window and i would like to catch the
> button press event on this pixmap
>
> to create my pixmap i use the function gtk_create_pixmap_from_xpm
> and my main window only contains my pixmap
>
> i tried the function gtk_signal_connect(pixmap,
> "button_press_event", cllaback, NULL) but it doesn't work???

Pixmaps are "no window" widget so don't get events. 
Create a GtkEventBox, place the pixmap inside that, 
then connect your callback to the event box. You need to
gtk_widget_set_events() or gtk_widget_add_events()
GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK on the event box.

Havoc