Re: problem handling "mouse button press"

[Simon Hookway <lord_seoman hotmail com>]

Actually, i found that the eventbox has the button_press and
button_release masks set as default.

The next problem is this will catch the button press anywhere on the
pixmap.

Simon

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 13:51, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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
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