Hello Richard richard boaz-2 wrote: > > if you want to ignore the motion event when a button is not pressed, then > check for this, and if there's nothing to do then return from the callback > without doing anything. this will cost you milliseconds. > > ... > > and with gtk and friends, i've never found that a solution wasn't possible > (yet, vs. my specific requirements, of course). sometimes you just need > to > be creative and "tease it out," as it were. > > richard > > I found a solution by doing this : I set up a "motion-notify-event" from the drawing area; then in the GdkEventMotion event structure, I get the 'state' data; this represents the state of the modifier keys, including mouse button... Thank you for your help Victor -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/combined-mouse-and-button-event-in-a-drawing-area-tp33090815p33095157.html Sent from the Gtk+ - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list