Re: How do I stop the Gtk from "using" the Tab key

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Norman Black" <stonybrk ix netcom com> writes:
> I have a window with a GtkNotebook and I do not want Gtk to do anything with
> the Tab key. I receive the Tab key but Gtk is still cycling the tabs in the
> notebook. My key press handler returns TRUE. In other words we are both
> using the same Tab key press.

Connect to key_press_event on the toplevel window, and
gtk_signal_emit_stop_by_name() the signal.

Returning TRUE only prevents propagation of the event from child
widget to parent, in this case you are a toplevel window and have no
parent.

Though, in GTK+ 2.0 the plan is for returning TRUE to actually stop
the emission.

Havoc