Re: Beginners question abour events

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:03, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> I can't seem to find why you return TRUE, or FALSE at the end of an 
> event routine like:
>
> static gboolean
> button_press_event( GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventButton *event )
> {
>    if (event->button == 1 && pixmap != NULL)
>        draw_brush (widget, event->x, event->y);
>
>    return TRUE;
> }
>
> What happens if you return FALSE when you should be returning TRUE?
> How do you know what you should be returning?

Here's the gtkmm version of the explanation:
http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/tutorial/html/apbs06.html

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