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Re: keyboard events with WIDGET_DRAW [message #15994]

Tue, 22 June 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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David Mattes (dmattes@u.washington.edu) writes:

> does anyone know how to capture keyboard events when a draw widget has
> focus??? i'd like to be able to use keypresses as shortcuts when someone
> is using the mouse inside the draw widget.

This is not the sort of thing that can usually be done
with widgets. However, J.D. Smith came up with a clever
hack that works surprisingly well. I wrote an article
about it that you can find here:

http://www.dfanning.com/tips/keyboard_events.html

Cheers,

David
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