Re: widget not getting button event?

["Marco Scholten" <mscholtn xs4all nl>]

A widget without a window doesn't receive events, you need to place the  
label inside an eventbox.

see
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1EventBox.html

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:06:16 +0100 (CET), Maroy Akos <darkeye tyrell hu>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to catch the button click event, when the user clicks on a  
> Gtk::Label. I have a label named title, and I use the following code in  
> the window containing it:
>
>      add_events(Gdk::ALL_EVENTS_MASK);
>      title->add_events(Gdk::ALL_EVENTS_MASK);
>      title->signal_button_press_event().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this,
>                                               &MyWindow::onTitleClicked));
>
> but, for some reason, my event handler never gets called. if I use:
>
>      signal_button_press_event().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this,
>                                               &MyWindow::onTitleClicked));
>
>
> it does get called, but then of course it gets called on any click in  
> the window, not on the title label.
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
>
>
> Akos
>
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