Re: keeping focus

["Amadeus W. M." <amadeus84 cablespeed com>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:09:14 -0600, Bob Caryl wrote:

> In the Gtk::Button::signal_clicked callback slots for your various other 
> buttons, add a statement that calls the Gtk::DrawingArea::grab_focus 
> method for your DrawingArea subsequent to the other code that is in the 
> callback slot..
> 

I want to prevent the focus from leaving the Darea in the first place, not
to get it back. 

But I think I got it. When the Up/Down arrows are pressed in the Darea,
just return 1 in the on_Darea_key_press() callback. This will
prevent the event from propagating to other widgets.