Re: Differences between kinds of events

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Gnaural wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Using gtk_widget_add_events()
> was a good tip in general, and the order in which I
> call things too. But unfortunately, they didn't help
> solve the question I still see. 
>
> I'll paste a very short program illustrating what I
> mean below, in which I set-up a button-press and a
> key-press handler in the same way for drawingarea1,
> but only the button-press responds. But if I merely
> change "drawingarea1" to "window1" in the key-press
> g_signal_connect(), it catches key presses just fine:

Hi,
    Sorry I didnt think of this but; in order to recieve
keyboard events; you have to have it in your event mask
(I already said that) but you *also* have to have keyboard
focus, keyboard focus usually naturally goes to the widget
that recieved the last mouse event; or programatically
gtk_widget_grab_focus(); or it can be tabbed to through
the "focus chain" (which can be declared for any said container).

What your probably missing in your code is:
    GTK_WIDGET_SET_FLAGS (drawingarea, GTK_CAN_FOCUS);

Cheers,
                 -Tristan