Hello, I have spent a couple of half-days trying to get keyboard events from a GTK drawing area with no luck, so I figure it is time to ask the experts here. My application has a very simple widget hierarchy, a main window holds a vbox which holds a drawing area. The vbox is there because someday soon I expect to put a control panel above the drawing area. And I am using gtk-2.0 under Fedora Core 7, gtk 2.10.14 as of today.
I am getting mouse events nicely from the drawing area, but have been entirely stumped in getting keyboard events. I have done google searches on the topic and taken the advice given, the code that I think is relevant is: GTK_WIDGET_SET_FLAGS ( da, GTK_CAN_FOCUS ); g_signal_connect ( GTK_OBJECT(da), "focus_event", GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(focus_handler), NULL ); gtk_widget_add_events ( GTK_WIDGET(da), GDK_FOCUS_CHANGE ); g_signal_connect ( GTK_OBJECT(da), "key_press_event", GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(keyboard_handler), NULL ); gtk_widget_add_events ( GTK_WIDGET(da), GDK_KEY_PRESS ); The keyboard and focus handlers just contain printf statements at this stage, if I ever trigger them, I'll be on to other things. If you are willing to look deeper, all the code for this project is under SVN and you can easily look at gtopo.c using a browser via the link: http://cholla.mmto.org/svn/gtopo/trunk/ The project website is: http://cholla.mmto.org/gtopo Thanks greatly for your help and advice! Tom -- Tom Trebisky MMT Observatory University of Arizona -- Tucson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list