Re: Key pressed and modifier

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

gtk gtk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm a new user of gtk/gdk and I can't cope with the
> following problem. I need to handle the event
> <control>m.  Here is the way I connect this signal to
> my widget:

>   SIGNAL_CONNECT(GTK_OBJECT(my_widget),
>                  "key-press-event",
>                  GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(key_pressed_handler),
>                  NULL);

> and the associated handler:

> void key_pressed_handler(GtkWidget *widget, 
>                          GdkEventKey *event,
>                          gpointer func_data _U_)
> {
>    /* Ctrl M on the line */
>    if (event->type == GDK_KEY_PRESS)
>    {
>       if ((event->state == GDK_MOD2_MASK) &&

if ((event->state == GDK_CONTROL_MASK) &&

Correction:

if ((event->state & GDK_CONTROL_MASK) &&

>           ((event->keyval == GDK_m) || (event->keyval
> == GDK_M)))
>       {
>          <my_treatment>
>       }
>    }
> }
>
> The problem is that I get nothing when I run this... I
> tried with "m" only (without <control>) and it's ok.
> What can I do so as the <control> modifier is taken
> into account?