Re: button press event

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

hamb ka wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> I have a problem of getting a button press event while left clicking 
> the mouse. Right click gives me both the press and release event, but 
> left click only presents the button release event...
> I am using a scrolled window with a clist by the way, the part of 
> adding the signal is as follows:
> gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT(self), "button_release_event",
>    GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(my_button_release), NULL);
> gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT(self), "button_press_event",
>    GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(my_button_press), NULL);
>
> The funny thing is that in the same application I have another code, 
> which is scrolledwindow+viewport, and I defined exactly the same two 
> events as I did to the scrolledwindow+clist. This one works perfectly. 
> Both right click and left click raise the button_press_event and 
> button_release_event....
>
> What could be the possible factor that make the button_release_event 
> fail with the left click in the first case?
> Thanks...
>
> Best Regards,
> hamb


Every widget has an event mask. You might have to use one of the following:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-set-events
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-add-events


HTH,
               -Tristan