Re: problem handling "mouse button press"

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Simon Hookway <lord_seoman hotmail com> writes: 
> hmm, i'm now using gtk2, i have a pixmap that i rendered into an
> eventbox as a GtkImage. I then render each button from a pixbuf onto
> certain portions of the GtkImage to create the buttons. ATM, when i get
> a click or release event i use gdk_window_get_pointer and test to see if
> the pointer is in the button area. This creates a problem if the button
> is irregular in shape.
>
> But because my buttons are still in a pixbuf, i could test the alpha
> channel of the original using the pointer location returned from the
> gdk_window_get_pointer call (accounting for the offset of course). 
>
> Is there a better way to do this?

I don't think so, no. You don't need the get_pointer(), can just use
event->x, event->y (probably _should_ use them to avoid race
conditions).

Havoc