Re: Gtk::window.present() doesn't always present

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 7/15/06, Harm Hamberg <h hamberg dynamicc-welding biz> wrote:
> > Great! But how can I get the timestamp from a
> > Gtk::Button::signal_clicked()? Should I override the on_frame_event and save
> > the last timestamp?
>
> gtk+ keeps track of events it is processing.  It has the notion of a
> "current event" that it is processing (which may be NULL), and there
> are methods to access this information.  When you're in a
> signal_clicked handler, gtk's current event is the button press event
> that caused that handler to be called.  Using gtk_get_current_event(),
> you can get that event, and then just access its time member.  I tried
> looking in the gtkmm documentation to see if that function was wrapped
> and had a different name, but didn't find anything.

There's also a get_current_time() or something like that, so it's even 
easier. The get_current_time() should support a key press that activated 
the button, as well.

Havoc