Re: [Matplotlib-users] capturing arrow key events

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Leslie <ti...@cs...> writes:

    Tim> This all works fine except that the down key doesn't register
    Tim> as released.  After registering the down key press, no other
    Tim> key events register until you hit the up key, at which point
    Tim> the key release triggers for the up.

It works fine for me -- what is your pygtk version and OS?
I'm using pygtk 2.2.0 on linux.

You might put some debug print statements to print event.keyval in
_get_key to see if an event is being triggered at the gtk level.

Could it be a bad keyboard???

    Tim> I really don't know a lot about Gtk or the matplotlib
    Tim> internals so I couldn't trace this bug deeper into the
    Tim> libraries. Can anyone shed some light on what's going on? If
    Tim> we can get the arrow keys working is there a chance of
    Tim> getting them into the standard distribution (assuming we had
    Tim> all backends working)?

Absolutely.  It might be nice to enable some standard keyboard
navigation too.

JDH