Re: catching mouse click events in a Gtk::TextView

["Francis (Grizzly) Smit" <grizzly smit id au>]

On 11/05/13 02:08, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote:
> hi I have been trying to catch mouseclick events in a Gtk::TextView
>
> I have tried
>
>     m_builder->get_widget("textviewPlaylists", m_textviewPlaylists);
>     if(m_textviewPlaylists){
>         //m_textviewPlaylists->signal_clicked().connect(
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Main_win::on_button_Connect) );
>         //m_textviewPlaylists->signal_clicked().connect(
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Main_win::on_button_Connect) );
>         m_textviewPlaylists->property_events() =
> m_textviewPlaylists->property_events() | Gdk::BUTTON_PRESS_MASK;
>         m_textviewPlaylists->signal_button_press_event().connect(
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Main_win::on_button_Pressed) );
>         //Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::TextBuffer> buffer =
> m_textviewPlaylists->get_buffer();
>         //buffer->signal_button_press_event().connect(
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Main_win::on_button_Pressed) );
>     }
>
> where m_textviewPlaylists is a pointer to my Gtk::TextView object no
> luck I have also tried
>
>     m_builder->get_widget("scrolledwindowPlaylists",
> m_scrolledwindowPlaylists);
>     if(m_scrolledwindowPlaylists){
>         m_scrolledwindowPlaylists->property_events() =
> Gdk::BUTTON_PRESS_MASK;
>         m_scrolledwindowPlaylists->signal_button_press_event().connect(
> sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Main_win::on_button_Pressed) );
>     }
>
>  where m_scrolledwindowPlaylists is a pointer to a Gtk::ScrolledWindow
> containing the said Gtk::TextView no luck with this either.
>
> the event does not fire either way
>
> my handler looks like so
>
>
> bool Main_win::on_button_Pressed(GdkEventButton* event){
>     std::cout << "entering on_button_Pressed" << std::endl;
>     if(event->type == GDK_2BUTTON_PRESS){ //double click //
>         std::cout << "double click" << std::endl;
>         return true;
>     }else if(event->type == GDK_BUTTON_PRESS){ // single click //
>         std::cout << "single click" << std::endl;
>         return true;
>     }
>     return false;
> }
>
>
> any help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Oh incase it's relevant I am using anjuta and glade

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