Re: Event Handling

[BoÅtjan ÅpetiÄ <igzebedze auch eu org>]

> I have a question about events. I have some sample code that I took from
> one of the examples that hooks up an event handler to a
> Gnome2::Canvas::Rect as follows:
>
> $rect->signal_connect (event=>&rectevent);
>
> and then later there's the handler code:
>
> sub rectevent
> {
>     warn("event: " . $event->type . "/n");
> }
>
> Nice, but this handler will receive all events. Is there a way to
> indicate to Gnome that my program is only interested in, say,
> "button-press"  events and to call my handler
> only for "button-press" events. Or do I have to handle all possible
> events in my handler?

$rect->signal_connect('button-press' => \&rectevent);

regards, bostjan