Re: GtkButton doesn't always react on mouse clicks

[Billy Biggs <vektor dumbterm net>]

Brian J. Tarricone (bjt23 cornell edu):

> On 11/2/2005 12:07 PM, Nickolai Dobrynin wrote:
> > 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.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070

  A workaround is to hide/show the widget.

  gtk_widget_set_sensitive (button, TRUE);
  gtk_widget_hide (button);
  gtk_widget_show (button);

  Although depending on the situation this workaround might not work so
well for you.

  -Billy