Ignoring piled up key-press-events

["Dov Grobgeld" <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

I have a problem that I have been stuck on for a while.

In my image viewer giv, I have a problem with a pileup of key-press-events. E.g. a space means load the next image. The problem is that I can't serve the keypress events at the full speed that they are generated, and gtk then piles them up. Thus, if I e.g. press and hold space, the image viewer will load new images long after I have let go of the space bar.

What I would like to do is to receive, but ignore, all keypress events until the previous command has been fully served, or equivalently at the end of serving a keypress event, clear all the key-press-events from the event buffer.

What's the best way of implementing this in gtk?

Thanks!
Dov