Something amiss with widget event handling about gdl HOT 5 CLOSED

I think my initial diagnosis is correct.
The "top level" handler is never getting called when an event is generated in compound widget, it should get called with the event structure returned by the compound widget's internal handler. See the attached test codes for CW_BGROUP, other compound widgets show the same behaviour.

Demo routines
Main test code: test_bg_events.pro
CW_BGROUP modified to print event diagnostics: cw_bgroup_test.pro

The regression occurs between commits 44a497b and 33ea0c9.

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Ah yes, there was this change after finding a problem with HESSI plot panels (#1659 (comment)), that were not called by the right hander.
To be continued...

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@jtappin you have demonstrated a problem with the current WIDGET_EVENT function. It does not obey the logic described in the documentation. This needs to be rewritten...
In the meantime you can comment out "return ev;" at line 389 in widget.cpp .

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@GillesDuvert if you could fix that I really think it will be time for a 1.0.5, before a 1.1 !

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#1716 will do the job, letting SSW's 'PLOTMAN' draw widget work and still have compound widgets working.
However this is not satisfactory, according to the documentation the 'plotman' event handling should not work...
but it works... The code used by plotman is reproduced in test_widgets (1st draw panel).

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