Re: ToggleButton seems to suppress pointer-motion-mask events

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Feb 3, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote:

> I noticed that initially I could not seem to capture the [pointer  
> motion] events.   I am a beginner so I was modifying the examples I  
> found in the distribution files; Thus I was using a widget that a  
> modification of the default example in the Gtk2-GLext package which  
> is composed of a OpenGL endowed DrawingArea that was placed into  
> vbox, (together with a label) and then placed into a ToggleButton.

Why put the DrawingArea inside a ToggleButton?  I think that quite  
violates the Principle of Least Surprise for the user.  Every time i'd  
try to click on the DrawingArea to manipulate the GL objects inside,  
the ToggleButton would toggle.  That's...  a bit strange.  ;-)


> When I tried to add motion-mask or motion-hint-masks via set_events  
> or add_events to the DrawingArea, it never reported the events.
>
> I could only get the events when I thought to get rid of the  
> ToggleButton.

A ToggleButton responds to events, so it has a GdkWindow (which is, in  
effect, an X Window).  The DrawingArea is a simple way to have a  
GdkWindow on which to draw and get events (so it, to, has an X Window).

When you gtk_widget_add() the DrawingArea to the ToggleButton, you  
make the DrawingArea's GdkWindow a child of the ToggleButton's  
GdkWindow.  That means that the ToggleButton's GdkWindow gets first  
crack at all the events.  Normally, all you put inside a toggle button  
are no-window widgets, like GtkLabel or GtkImage, so this isn't a  
problem.

But in your case, the system is behaving as designed, and the  
ToggleButton is eating the events that you want to go to the  
DrawingArea.

Solution:  Don't put the DrawingArea inside a ToggleButton.


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