Re: [gtk-list] Missing events

[Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds kjahds com>]

On 24 Oct 1997, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com> writes:
> 
> > I've got a problem _somewhere_ in my Perl code that I have not been able
> > to solve, or even localize. For some reason, my ruler test (identical to
> > the ruler test in testgtk.c) does not properly update the rulers when the
> > pointer moves over the window background. Events only occur when the
> > pointer moves over either of the rulers, or enters the window background
> > (either from outside the window, or from the rulers.) 
> 
> My guess is that you aren't propagating is_hint correctly when
> passing the event to ruler->motion_notify. If is_hint isn't set,
> the callback won't call gtk_widget_pointer_get, and no further
> motion events will be sent.

Hmm. Yes, that's possible, I'll check that. 

> (More drastically, I get a segfault when I try the ruler test with
> Gtk-0.1.9 - I suspect because of reference counting on GdkWindows, but
> perhaps you have fixed that since then.)

Don't worry, Gtk-0.1.9 is almost completely bollixed. The one I'm working
on is quite a bit more stable, even if some of the reference counting is
dodgy.

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)