Re: combo and button-press-event

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

  Manel,

 Try this instead.:

  g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(GTK_COMBO(combo)->entry), "activate",
                            G_CALLBACK(callback), NULL);

Good luck.

Harring.

--- Manel de la Rosa <manel comp racclub net> wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> Anybody knows how have I to modify the GtkCombo widget (or any VBox/HBox 
> descendant widget containing an entry) code to make it answer a 
> "button_press_event" ?
>
> I mean, if I connect a GtkCombo widget to a given callback and I click on 
> it, I get no answer, the callback is not executed. For example,
> here there is a very short program (25 lines counting blanks) that
> tries to print a message:
>
> ------------------------------- CUT HERE ----------------------------------
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
>
> void callback(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
> {
>   g_warning("any message\n");
> }
>
> int main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   GtkWidget *shell;
>   GtkWidget *combo;
>
>   gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
>   shell = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>   gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(shell), "title");
>   
>   combo = gtk_combo_new();
>   gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(shell), combo);
>   g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(combo), "button-press-event",
>                    G_CALLBACK(callback), NULL);
>   
>   gtk_widget_show_all(shell);
>   gtk_main ();
>
>   return 0;
> }
> ------------------------------- CUT HERE ----------------------------------
>
>
> And nothing happens! I've looked at the widget's code and a
> "gtk_combo_button_press()" exists, but is only connected to combo->popwin,
> and it really does nothing aside to popdown the combo list. I've added a
> EventBox widget but this fails too.
>
> Please, I'm developing an app that uses button clicks on entries to invoke 
> certain actions, and I need to do it on a GtkCombo and a home-made VBox 
> descendant widget and I cannot use neither of them because this problem.
> I'm desesperate, so I'd apreciate *greatly* any kind of help.
>
> Thank you in advance
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