Re: [gtk-list] Key press event in drawing area

[Brandon Long <blong fiction net>]

On 11/18/98 Guzma Vladimir uttered the following other thing:
> Hi all
> I want to have drawing area with something write in it and I need to get key pres even for this
> Ho to get them?? 

You have to both allow the events, and set up a handler for the keypress
event, something like:

da = gtk_drawing_area_new ();
/* some code to place da */
/* Connect your callback to the signal */
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (da), "key_press_event", 
                    (GtkSignalFunc) keypress_callback, NULL);
/* Unmask the signal */
/* You'll probably want to or this with the other events you want,
 * typically you should grab the GDK_EXPOSURE_MASK as well for a drawing
 * area */
gtk_widget_set_events (da, GDK_KEY_PRESS_MASK | GDK_EXPOSURE_MASK);
gtk_widget_show (da);

Then, you define your callback like:
gint entry_callback (GtkWidget *w, GdkEventKey *event, gpointer data)
{
  g_print ("-I- Key Press %s\n", event->string);
}

Brandon
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