Re: key-release-event not detected

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:02, Carlos Pereira wrote:
> > 'm having trouble getting a callback called when a "key-release-event"
> > occurs. I do the following:
>
> > But the applet_key_cb() callback only gets called on "key-press-event"s.
>
> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> You need to add key-release-event to the list
> of events that gtk is monitoring, by default only
> key-press-event is checked, for performance reasons.
>
> look for something as this (gtk1.2):
>
> gtk_widget_set_events (GTK_WIDGET (gl_area), GDK_EXPOSURE_MASK |
> GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK |
> GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK |
> GDK_KEY_PRESS_MASK | GDK_KEY_RELEASE_MASK);

"key-release-event" generally needs to be selected for on the toplevel
window. If "applet" means a panel applet, them however, you 
are out of luck, since it looks like GtkSocket doesn't forward
key releases. (A bug report about that would be useful.)

Regards,
                                        Owen