Re: Overloading mouse events in a ProgressBar

Bingo! Thanks for the tip.

On 8/6/19 12:36 PM, Rob Pearce wrote:
> On 06/08/2019 14:50, Phil Wolff via gtkmm-list wrote:
>> I'm deriving from Gtk::ProgressBar in order to track mouse events 
>> within the widget. The only callback that executes is on_map(). Can 
>> anyone tell me what vital (and likely obvious) operation I've failed 
>> to include?
>>
> I don't know if this still applies on GTK3 but on earlier versions 
> ISTR that display widgets (like progress bar) usually aren't sensitive 
> to mouse events because they have no reason to be. On X11 that also 
> means they don't have the necessary X type. You have to wrap them in 
> an event box and hook up to that instead.
>
> HTH,
>
> Rob
>
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