Re: no signals when paned handles dragged

[John Finlay <finlay moeraki com>]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> I bumped up against this problem a couple weeks ago, posted a note about it
> on the pygtk list, but got no useful workaround suggestions, then ignored it
> for awhile.  Now I'm back to it.
>
> There appears to be no useful signal emitted when a GtkPaned widget's handle
> is moved using the mouse.  The move-handle signal seems like the perfect
> candidate, but the pygtk docs indicate it's only emitted when the handle is
> moved using a variety of keys (The GTK reference manual is silent on the
> conditions for the emission of the move-handle signal.  This seems like a
> documentation bug to me.)
>
> Quoting from:
>
>    http://www.moeraki.com/pygtkreference/pygtk2reference/class-gtkpaned.html
>
> we find:
>
>    The "move-handle" signal is emitted when paned has the focus and one of
>    the following key combinations is pressed to move the separator:
>
>    Left Arrow
>    Right Arrow
>    Up Arrow
>    Down Arrow
>    Page Up
>    Page Down
>    Home
>    End
>
> Is there a way to be notified when the handle is moved using the mouse?
>
>  
Maybe connecting to "notify::position" would work for your purposes. It 
seems to be emitted any time the handle position is changed.

John