Re: "motion-notify-event"

[Luca Cappa <luca cappa i-medlab com>]

>     gtk_widget_add_events(window,GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | 
> GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK);
>     
>
> A few more questions on GtkEvent:
>
> There are 2 ways I can get data of mouse position: event->button.x or 
> event->motion.x. Out of these two, which one should be used to capture 
> the location of the  mouse pointer relative to the window.

the .x/.y of the second one, if you meant it is a GdkEventMotion.

> Some examples use the following piece of code too:
> if(event->is_hint)
>      gdk_window_get_pointer(window,&x.&y,&state);

You should either remove the GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK); flag above, 
or instead use the code above you shown just at the start of your 
motion_notify_event handler.

Luca