Re: GTK+ 1.2 key press and release events

[Philip Bunce <pjb carmel com>]

At 09:30 PM 3/24/2002 +0000, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
> In Xlib, when you press and hold a key you get an initial keypress event, 
> followed by more keypress events as the keyboard auto-repeats and when you 
> finaly release it you get a keyrelease event.
>
> In gtk+ 1.2 when I press and hold a key I get a keypress event immediately 
> followed by a key press event.  When I release the key there is no 
> corresponding keyrelease event..
>
> How do I get gtk to to behave like Xlib?

I needed to add this (thanks to Havoc)

        gtk_widget_get_events (view.text) | GDK_KEY_RELEASE_MASK);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (view.text), "key_release_event",
                            GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(cb_text_key), NULL);



> TIA
>
> Ian
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