To: tim at fungible.com
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: Can't get keypresses from a GMisc.drawing_area
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:38:07 +0900
From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
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From: tim@fungible.com (Tim Freeman)
> Here's modified source code derived from the lissajous.ml lablgtk
> example.  I want to be able to get keypresses from a
> GMisc.drawing_area.  I can get expose events fine.  If I use strace, I
> see system call activity when I type at the window, so the X eventmask
> is set right.
> 
> Any idea how I can get the following code to print "key pressed!" when
> I press a key over the window?  

You can only get keypress events on the toplevel window.
i.e. area#misc#toplevel

Jacques