key_release_event with GtkText widget

[Philip Bunce <pjb carmel com>]

Hi,

I am trying to get each keystroke from a GtkText widget as the user types.
I have successfully captured the key_press_events and retrieved the key pressed, but for the Shift and Control keys
I need to detect the key_release also. I tried adding code for that but I never see a single key_release_event.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please?

Here are the relevant bits of code....

gint cb_sailsim_text_key( GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventKey *event, gpointer data)
{
int key = event->keyval;
char *fmt = 0;

if (event->type == GDK_KEY_PRESS) {
        if ((key >= 0x20) && (key <= 0xFF)) {
                if (sailsim.shift) key = toupper(key);
                else if (sailsim.ctrl) {
                        key = toupper(key);
                        fmt = "^";
                        }
            printf("I got a %s%c\n", (fmt)?fmt:"",key);
            }
        else if (key == 0xffe1) sailsim.shift = 1;
        else if (key == 0xffe3) sailsim.ctrl = 1;
        else
            printf("I got some other key %02x\n",event->keyval);
        }
else {
        printf("key_release: %x\n",key);
        if (key == 0xffe1) sailsim.shift = 0;
        else if (key == 0xffe3) sailsim.ctrl = 0;
        }
return TRUE;
}

gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (sailsim.text), "key_release_event",
                            GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(cb_sailsim_text_key), NULL);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (sailsim.text), "key_press_event",
                            GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(cb_sailsim_text_key), NULL);