Re: Key Press Events and Widgets

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote:
> 
> Is that because they require an X Window to receive the focus? Or can I set the
> focus myself? My app makes more sense if the main drawing area widget can handle
> its own key presses....
> 

I think you need to set the GTK_CAN_FOCUS flag on the drawing aread
widget. GTK_WIDGET_SET_FLAGS(da, GTK_CAN_FOCUS). I was fooling with this
and only getting every other up and down arrow key press though. It was
too weird to I just went and did something else, but if you get the same
thing let me know... 

Havoc