Re: GtkButton doesn't always react on mouse clicks

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

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On 11/2/2005 12:07 PM, Nickolai Dobrynin wrote:
> I have a GtkButton in my application that gets deactivated ("greyed out",
> via gtk_widget_set_sensitive) each time it gets clicked on and, at some
> point later, re-activated. Here is the problem I have. Suppose I click on
> the button (thereby deactivating it) and then do NOT move the mouse away
> until the program re-activates the button back. Now, clicking on the button
> has no effect at all until I move the mouse away and then move it back onto
> the button. Once I've done this, the button lights up as usual, and
> everything starts working fine.
>
> Anybody please could tell me how to make the button that was just
> re-activated receive the click signals without first having to move the
> mouse away and then move it back on? (I am using gtk v. 2.4.11). Evidently,
> the button fails to recognize that the mouse is over it at the time it
> becomes sensitive again.

I've seen this problem before with gtk 2.8.x as well.  Seems like a
semi-obscure gtk bug.

        -brian

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