Re: missing mouse motion and release events

["Norman Black" <stonybrk ix netcom com>]

Check out gdk_pointer_grab

Best Regards,
Norman Black
Stony Brook Software
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Swayne" <dfs research att com>
To: <gtk-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 02:33 PM
Subject: missing mouse motion and release events


> I'm having a problem with mouse motion events:  I press the mouse,
> set a flag, and then I want to respond to mouse motion as long as the
> button is down.  However, if I move the mouse outside the drawing
> area, I can no longer get the mouse motion events.  And if I release
> the button, I don't get the button up event.
> 
> Is there some other way to get this event?  [Assume the mouse is
> released outside any of my program's windows.]  This is very
> different than the behavior of other X-based toolkits, no?  It makes
> my software feel unpleasantly buggy.
> 
> I see in Havoc's book that this is the documented behavior, but is
> there no workaround?
> 
> I suppose I can do a lot of monkeying around with enter and leave
> events, but it seems so unnecessary.
> 
> Debby
> 
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