I figured it all out, and wrote it up in an article here: http://www.rutski89.com/dynamic/journal.html?name=gtkwidget
Sleepiness was already hitting hard while banging away at the keyboard, so please do let me know if you see any mistakes. -Patrick On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Patrick M. Rutkowski<rutsk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, I just figured it out a few moments ago. Adding the > following to realize() beings to fix things: > > GTK_WIDGET_SET_FLAGS(widget, GTK_CAN_FOCUS); > > I start to get keyboard events and such. > > However, there's another problem now! Even with GTK_CAN_FOCUS, I still > don't get GDK_MOTION_NOTIFY events, or even mouse button press events. > > Here's another test case to instated illustrate that problem. This > time, "IT WORKS!" only prints if the event is somehow mouse related: > > http://www.rutski89.com/static/mouse_test.c > > See if you can get that one to print, I can't > -Patrick > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Brian J. Tarricone<bj...@cornell.edu> wrote: >> On 08/20/2009 10:27 PM, Patrick M. Rutkowski wrote: >>> I've written a test case that anybody can compile and run: >>> http://www.rutski89.com/static/event_test.c >>> >>> It contains the following line of code in the any_event() function: >>> printf("IT WORKS!\n"); >>> >>> That currently does not get printed. >>> >>> If you can get the test case to print that line of text, you will have >>> solved my problem. >> >> I can, but probably not in the way you want. I think one of two things >> is going on: >> >> 1. GtkWidget just doesn't handle events and subclassing it will take >> more work than just subclassing realize() to get it to receive events. >> >> 2. You're missing something in your realize() method, though I'm not >> sure what. >> >> If I make your Foo class into a subclass of GtkEventBox instead of >> GtkWidget, and then remove your realize() implementation (so it uses >> GtkEventBox's impl), then it prints "IT WORKS!" as you'd expect. >> Perhaps perusing gtkeventbox.c might help you figure out what else is >> needed if you really want to just subclass GtkWidget. >> >> -brian >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list >> > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
