Re: Trouble with GtkImage on button press event!

[Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com>]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:48 -0700, heavenscape wrote: 
> I need to capture the button press event on a GtkImage widget...
> and I mapped the "Button press event" using glade, but it never worked.
> Anyone knows why?

[gtk] Images themselves don't have [gdk] Windows underneath them, and
only such Windows receive events.

There is thus a "helper" class called GtkEventBox. You have to nest the
Image inside an EventBox to which you can then hook up mouse button
press events.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkEventBox.html or
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/docs/javadoc/org/gnu/gtk/EventBox.html

AfC
Sydney

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