Re: retrieving key presses

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Richard Harvey Chapman <hchapman@3gfp.com> writes:
> I'd like to retrieve any keys that may have been pressed when a user
> selected a GtkTreeItem.  I'd like to add a new type of selection to
> GtkTree that behaves more like the windows style of selection.  Namely:
> single_selection normally unless shift or control are pressed along with
> the selection.  If my application is going to be well received, the
> selection mechanism needs to mirror what is already "familiar" to my
> customers who are all used to Windows apps.
> 

You probably need to connect to button_press_event and keep track of
the modifier mask (event->state) for the last button press, then use
this info in some way. It's going to involve some ugly hacks. ;-)

Havoc