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Event controller demo showcases button click with Ctrl key modifier by creating Gtk.EventControllerKey
and tracking key state in global variable. This approach is at least bit quirky (eg. fails to track key state changes made off-focus) and seems like a bad practice (global variable, really?). I know it was meant to find show case for Gtk.EventControllerKey
but I believe not teaching beginners (such as myself) bad practices is important. So maybe finding different show case is in order.
Proper technique for handling clicks and other events with key modifier is to use controller.get_current_event_state()
in callback. For example like this.
def on_button_release(controller, clicks, x, y):
if (controller.get_current_event_state() & Gdk.ModifierType.CONTROL_MASK):
print("Ctrl was pressed")
else:
print("Ctrl was not pressed")
click = Gtk.GestureClick()
click.connect("released", on_button_release)
widget.add_controller(click)
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