Re: Button-release event

As nobody has pointed out a mistake in what I'm trying to do, I've created a
new bug report for this.

If anyone is interested, see

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110271

for more details and a simple test case.

Regards,
Richard.

----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
>
> I think I'm getting a difference in the notification of button-release
> events between Linux and Win32 builds of my application.
>
> I have a drawing-area in which I use the button_press_event,
> button_release_event and motion_notify_event events (to implement a
zooming
> feature by dragging a rubber-band rectangle over the area to zoom in on).
>
> Under linux, if I press down on the button, then accidentally drag to
> outside of my drawing area before releasing the button, I still get the
> button_release_event, regardless of where I release the button.
>
> Under windows, if I do the same thing then I don't get the
> button_release_event if I let go of the mouse button when the cursor is
over
> a widget that can receive the focus (e.g. buttons, radio buttons etc.).
If
> I let go over a plain label or unused part of the application then I get
the
> event okay, but if I'm over a focus-able widget I don't get anything.
>
> So, am I doing something stupid?  Should I expect this difference between
> linux and windows?
>
> I'm using V2.2.0 on linux, and Tor's 2003-01-09 build (also V2.2.0 I
think)
> on windows.
>
> I'm happy to file a bug if this difference is not-expected, but I thought
> I'd just run it past you all first in case it's my fault!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Richard Warren.