for what it's worth, I was forgetting the need for widget.add_grab(), apparently grab_pointer is insufficient by itself. -- Darren On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Darren Hart <darren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've written a custom widget which pops up a > gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_POPUP) when the toggle button is pressed. I'm > struggling with the owner_events argument to pointer_grab. If I set > it to True, then my window will stay popped up if I click on active > areas of my main window (i/e/ widgets and not just dead space between > widgets). If I set it to False, then it disappears as it should, but > if I click on any of the controls in the popup, nothing happens. I > thought that by returning False from the popup_button_press handler, > that the event should be propogated to the child widgets... but > apparently not. > > What can I do so that if I click anywhere outside the popup the > window, the popup window will close, and if I click inside the popup > window, the appropriate child widget will receive the event? I've > pasted what I believe to be the relevant buts below: > > (my example is in python, but I think the concept applies to any > language binding, and I'm not getting a response in pygtk-landia) > > def _hide_popup(self): > self._popup.hide() > self._popup.grab_remove() > self.set_active(False) > > def _show_popup(self): > x, y = self.window.get_origin() > x += self.get_allocation().x > y += self.get_allocation().y + self.get_allocation().height > self._popup.move(x, y) > self._popup.show_all() > # FIXME: would like second arg to be False, but then the event > doesn't get > # handled if it lands on the popup window... weird... > gdk.pointer_grab(self._popup.window, True, > gdk.BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | gdk.BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK) > > def _on_popup_button_press(self, popup, event): > w, h = popup.get_size() > x = event.x > y = event.y > if x < 0 or x > w or y < 0 or y > h: > self._hide_popup() > return True > # FIXME: this doesn't seem to propogate the events... > return False > > > Thanks for looking! > > -- > Darren Hart > -- Darren Hart _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
