Re: intercepting key release in an entry

[Krzesimir Nowak <qdlacz gmail com>]

2011/8/26 Yann Leydier <yann leydier info>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a set of entries and I want the following behaviour: when the user
> types <space>, the focus passes to the next entry, when the user types
> <shift-space> a regular space is inserted in the entry.
>
> As the insert_text event does not allow to check key modifiers, I tried to
> connect to the key_release_event (I added it to the event mask) with
> after=false and returning true when <space> is pressed to prevent the signal
> from being dispatched any further, but the space is still inserted in the
> entry.
>
> Is there any way to do this?

Maybe handling key release event is just too late - try handling key
press event.

> Thanks,
> yann
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