On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> except that the source actor in the event will be wrong, and if I
> added a check for that inside clutter_actor_event() (something which
> would make sense for me to add) then you'd get a warning and the event
> would be rejected.
>
> you'd have to synthesize a new event from the one passed, though to be
> fair that's be a fairly evil thing to do.
>

For reference, we already do this to re-type key events into the search
field into the overview. Feel free to recommend a better way for us to do
this though:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/viewSelector.js#n509


> if you want to handle middle-click-to-paste by middle-clicking
> anywhere other than an entry (something I honestly don't think would
> be good to have), then you should connect to the button-release-event
> on that other actor, and do what StEntry does when it receives a
> middle click. maybe even add a method to StEntry to paste the contents
> from a specific clipboard into its text buffer.
>
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
>
> On 8 July 2014 17:47, Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Sam Bull <sam.hack...@sent.com> wrote:
> >> Ah, that makes sense. Is there any way that might be fixed? When
> >> clicking anywhere else on the note, the code is simply:
> >>
> >>         this._box.connect('button-press-event', function () {
> >>             clutterText.grab_key_focus();
> >>         });
> >>
> >> Is there any way to propagate the middle click through?
> >
> >
> > Not very pretty, but something like this should work:
> >
> >          this._box.connect('button-press-event', function (actor, event)
> {
> >              clutterText.event(event, false);
> >          });
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