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Bug 791867 - Crash when accessing the "string" attribute of GdkEventKey on 64bit Windows
Crash when accessing the "string" attribute of GdkEventKey on 64bit Windows
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: pygobject
Classification: Bindings
Component: general
Git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nobody's working on this now (help wanted and appreciated)
Python bindings maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-22 07:57 UTC by Christoph Reiter (lazka)
Modified: 2018-01-10 21:01 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christoph Reiter (lazka) 2017-12-22 07:57:52 UTC 
Reported here: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/3228

from gi.repository import Gtk

#do_key_press_event(<Gdk.EventKey object at 0x0000000002f8f0e8 (void at 0x00000000029665a0)>) string=
#do_key_press_event(<Gdk.EventKey object at 0x0000000002f8f0e8 (void at 0x00000000029668c0)>) string=
#**
#ERROR:../../pygobject-3.26.1/gi/pygi-argument.c:1004:_pygi_argument_to_object: code should not be reached

class KeyEventWindow(Gtk.Window):

    def do_key_press_event(self, event):
        print("do_key_press_event(%s) string=%s" % (event, event.string))

    def do_key_release_event(self, event):
        print("do_key_release_event(%s) string=%s" % (event, event.string))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    w = KeyEventWindow()
    w.show()
    Gtk.main()
Comment 1 Antoine Martin 2017-12-23 05:37:35 UTC 
Important: this only occurs with a specific layout ("German") and a specific key (the key to the right of the left-shift key), though it is likely that there are other combinations that can trigger it.

"us" and many other layouts work just fine.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-10 21:01:35 UTC 
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