Re: [java-gnome-hackers] gnome conflicts with gtkentry

[Mark H. <mh...@ti...>]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 23:51, Tom Ball wrote:
> it fails in EventKey.getString with a bogus eventkey handle.
Are you sure it's bogus. The location certainly seems as vaild as the
others. Commenting out the call to the native getString (in
gdk.EventKey.getString) "fixes" the problems for me. 

The following is printed in the docs for the string field of GdkEventKey
- perhaps we shouldn't be using GdkEventKey.string:

a string containing the an approximation of the text that would result
from this keypress. The only correct way to handle text input of text is
using input methods (see GtkIMContext), so this field is deprecated and
should never be used. (gdk_unicode_to_keyval() provides a non-deprecated
way of getting an approximate translation for a key.) The string is
encoded in the encoding of the current locale (Note: this for backwards
compatibility: strings in GTK+ and GDK are typically in UTF-8.) and
NUL-terminated. In some cases, the translation of the key code will be a
single NUL byte, in which case looking at length is necessary to
distinguish it from the an empty translation.

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