I have a widget FigureCanvas derived from a gtk.DrawingArea. The canvas connects to a host of events, including the key press and button press masks. These events work fine when I embed the canvas in a vbox in a window manually.
When I create the window an vbox in glade-2, and then add the canvas
to the vbox in a python script which loads the glade widgets, the
button presses get activated but not the key presses. Ie, the
keypress function below is not called
Here is a snippet
self.canvas = FigureCanvas(self.figure) # a gtk.DrawingArea
self.canvas.set_events(
gtk.gdk.BUTTON_PRESS_MASK |
gtk.gdk.KEY_PRESS_MASK |
gtk.gdk.KEY_RELEASE_MASK
)
self.canvas.set_flags(gtk.HAS_FOCUS|gtk.CAN_FOCUS)
self.canvas.grab_focus()
def keypress(widget, event):
print 'key press'
def buttonpress(widget, event):
print 'button press'
self.canvas.connect('key_press_event', keypress)
self.canvas.connect('button_press_event', buttonpress)
Any ideas?
A complete example, which requires matplotlib, is below
Thanks,
JDH
In [1]: import gtk
In [2]: gtk.pygtk_version
Out[2]: (2, 6, 1)
peds-pc311:~/python/projects/matplotlib> glade-2 --version
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
Glade (GTK+) 2.10.0
#!/usr/bin/env python
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('GTK')
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.axes import Subplot
from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtkagg import FigureCanvasGTKAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtkagg import NavigationToolbar2GTKAgg as NavigationToolbar
from matplotlib.widgets import HorizontalSpanSelector
from matplotlib.numerix import arange, sin, pi
import gtk
import gtk.glade
def simple_msg(msg, parent=None, title=None):
dialog = gtk.MessageDialog(
parent = None,
type = gtk.MESSAGE_INFO,
buttons = gtk.BUTTONS_OK,
message_format = msg)
if parent is not None:
dialog.set_transient_for(parent)
if title is not None:
dialog.set_title(title)
dialog.show()
dialog.run()
dialog.destroy()
return None
class GladeHandlers:
def on_buttonClickMe_clicked(event):
simple_msg('Nothing to say, really',
parent=widgets['windowMain'],
title='Thanks!')
class WidgetsWrapper:
def __init__(self):
self.widgets = gtk.glade.XML('mpl_with_glade.glade')
self.widgets.signal_autoconnect(GladeHandlers.__dict__)
self['windowMain'].connect('destroy', lambda x: gtk.main_quit())
self['windowMain'].move(10,10)
self.figure = Figure(figsize=(8,6), dpi=72)
self.axis = self.figure.add_subplot(111)
t = arange(0.0,3.0,0.01)
s = sin(2*pi*t)
self.axis.plot(t,s)
self.axis.set_xlabel('time (s)')
self.axis.set_ylabel('voltage')
self.canvas = FigureCanvas(self.figure) # a gtk.DrawingArea
self.canvas.show()
self.canvas.set_size_request(600, 400)
self.canvas.set_events(
gtk.gdk.BUTTON_PRESS_MASK |
gtk.gdk.KEY_PRESS_MASK |
gtk.gdk.KEY_RELEASE_MASK
)
self.canvas.set_flags(gtk.HAS_FOCUS|gtk.CAN_FOCUS)
self.canvas.grab_focus()
def keypress(widget, event):
print 'key press'
def buttonpress(widget, event):
print 'button press'
self.canvas.connect('key_press_event', keypress)
self.canvas.connect('button_press_event', buttonpress)
def onselect(xmin, xmax):
print xmin, xmax
#span = HorizontalSpanSelector(self.axis, onselect, useblit=False,
# rectprops=dict(alpha=0.5, facecolor='red') )
self['vboxMain'].pack_start(self.canvas, True, True)
self['vboxMain'].show()
# below is optional if you want the navigation toolbar
self.navToolbar = NavigationToolbar(self.canvas, self['windowMain'])
self.navToolbar.lastDir = '/var/tmp/'
self['vboxMain'].pack_start(self.navToolbar)
self.navToolbar.show()
sep = gtk.HSeparator()
sep.show()
self['vboxMain'].pack_start(sep, True, True)
self['vboxMain'].reorder_child(self['buttonClickMe'],-1)
def __getitem__(self, key):
return self.widgets.get_widget(key)
widgets = WidgetsWrapper()
gtk.main()
mpl_with_glade.glade
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