Re: GtkList behaviour once more

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> is there any reason for the following which changes the
> GtkList behaviour in the GTK+1.1 versions?
> 
> I heavyly relaed on the feature of GTK+1.0.x that list items
> can be selected with *ALL* mouse buttons but gtklist.c says:
> 
> -----------------------8<-------------------------------------------
> 
> static gint
> gtk_list_button_press (GtkWidget      *widget,
> 		       GdkEventButton *event)
> {
>   GtkList *list;
>   GtkWidget *item;
> 
>   g_return_val_if_fail (widget != NULL, FALSE);
>   g_return_val_if_fail (GTK_IS_LIST (widget), FALSE);
>   g_return_val_if_fail (event != NULL, FALSE);
> 
>   if (event->button != 1)    /**************** WHY THAT????? ****************/
>     return FALSE;
> 
>   list = GTK_LIST (widget);
>   item = gtk_get_event_widget ((GdkEvent*) event);
> 
> ------------------------>8-------------------------------------------
> 
> Can anybody tell me a reason for this change?
> 
> If there is any reason it seems that I have to live with
> it.  Does anybody have a clue how to do selections with
> the other mouse buttons in this case??
> I explained in former (mostly unanswered :-() mails how it
> makes sense!
> 
> If there isn't any importand reason please change it back to the old
> behaviour!

this discussion has been raised before, but apparently no one showed
enough interest to actually implement the solution proposed:

> maybe GtkCList should provide a sophisticated interface for this, ala
> 
> typedef enum
> {
>   GTK_BUTTON_IGNORED    = 0,
>   GTK_BUTTON_SELECTS    = 1 << 0,
>   GTK_BUTTON_UNSELECTS  = 1 << 1,
>   GTK_BUTTON_DRAGS      = 1 << 2,
>   ...
> } GtkButtonFlags;
> 
> 
> gtk_clist_set_button_actions (GtkCList            *clist,
>                               GtkButtonActionType  button1_actions,
>                               GtkButtonActionType  button2_actions,
>                               GtkButtonActionType  button3_actions);

this does apply to GtkList as well, of course.

> 
> Thank you very much for the whole well done job which
> gives great help in GUI programming.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 

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ciaoTJ