Re: Gtk2::Entry - manipulating key-press-event?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Nov 27, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Martin Junius wrote:

> My idea to achieve this is catching key-press-events, checking for  
> keypad something, modify the event, and send it on to the application.  
> Is this the canonical way to do this? Or is there an easier route?

try the GtkEditable's "insert-text" event --- you get an opportunity to  
edit the text that will be entered in the entry.  there's an example  
using it:   
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gtk2-perl/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2/ 
examples/insert-text-test.pl?rev=1.3&view=auto


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