Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Textview

[Brandon S. A. K. <al...@ec...>]

On 2008 Sep 17, at 14:49, Eric wrote:
> I am using a textview and I wanted to deal with the escape key being
> pressed so I wrote the following:
>
> Unfortunately now I when I type into the editor text does not appear.
>
>    onKeyPress text_gui $ \e ->
>        case eventKeyName e of
>            "Escape" -> do
>                ...
>                return True
>            otherwise -> return True


That final "return True" tells Gtk that you've already handled the  
keypress; if you want the textview to process the key you probably  
want to return False.

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