Re: Can A Drawable Canvas Receive Key Events?

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:02 -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a standalone test app that has nothing inside the main window but 
> a big, drawable RGB canvas (GtkDrawingArea). I can receive nearly any 
> kind of event via the canvas: Expose, mouse motion, button 
> press/release, scroll wheel, etc. However, I *cannot* figure out how to 
> get key press events. I even added the key up/down events to the 
> widget's event list using the GDK_KEY_PRESS_MASK and 
> GDK_KEY_RELEASE_MASK flags passed to gtk_widget_add_events().

Did you add the events to the event mask before the widget was
realized ?

Does the widget in question have keyboard focus at the time
you want to recieve the keyboard events ?

Is the widget in question marked to be focus-capable ?
(i.e. the can-focus bit/property)

Cheers,
                 -Tristan