Gajim - 2024-04-15

I try to experiment with a push-to-talk button, but after holding the button down, the release-button event isn't fired. Do you have any suggestion how to accomplish this correctly? Otherwise I will leave that for now.

meson: https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/index.html#Gtk-3.0/classes/Widget.html#Gtk.Widget.signals.button_release_event

Might need an event mask in the button

Event mask _in the buttom_? I tried that with no luck. But doesn't it actually say the event mask must be added to the GDK Window?

To the window of the button. Yes, I'd have to experiment myself to find out where exactly to add this

No problem. Whenever you got too much time ;)

meson: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/blob/master/gajim/gtk/avatar_selector.py#L202

Just an example

Thanks, it works if I press and release quickly, but not after long pressing. I will think about it more tomorrow

I guess it looses focus?

did you try the button.clicked event?

docs say its triggered once the button is released

https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/#Gtk-3.0/classes/Button.html#signals

also it has released and pressed signals

also it says you can use the Widget.button_press_event

Thanks, works now o/

But I needed to grab the focus and temporarily set the popup menu to non-modal

Tomorrow refactoring and cleaning up a little bit and then it should be quasi ready.

gui stuff sounds miserable :)

UI is always the hardest part

personally i hate push to talk

you have no good way to tell the user that this is a push to talk function

which normally results in 1 second files beeing sent

lovetox: it would first start recording after a delay when pressed

yeah of course you can think up solutions for that

but the question is why

whats the big benefit here

why as a user do i need to learn to use this function correctly with repeated tries, and it does not behave like all other buttons in the application

cal0pteryx mentioned Telegram which offers this functionality. WhatsApp users are use to it. I mean it would save three clicks.

so what if i record a 10 minute message?

But yeah I just wanted to experiment with it. It's easily removed again

Then you click once, open the popup menu and click the record button

so there are two different buttons?

No

It's the same button

ok common .. like how would users even discover this functionality

i press the button, a menu opens, what in the world would ever let me assume i can push that button long to get some functionality

I will show a demo later or tomorrow. Maybe we could a info in the mouse hover hint

No that button

The one in the message action bar

yes, the menu button or?

Yeah

But before we start or continue about different things by accident, let me first show you how it is

Otherwise we discuss for.nothing

alright, no worries, i stop now, im not the expert in recording voice messages

No problem, I'm happy about feedback and good arguments in any direction :)