Re: intercepting key release in an entry

[Yann Leydier <yann leydier info>]

Yep thanks ! That did it ! :)

And also, one might not want to use the GDK_KP_Space macro: it does not 
contain the value for the space character!

On 26/08/11 10:11, Krzesimir Nowak wrote:
> 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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