Re: scrolling text box with mouse wheel

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

James <James jigsawdezign demon co uk> writes:

> Hello again,
>
>   Here is a more detailed explanation of what i`m trying to do with the
> mouse wheel for scrolling. Basically i have a window with menubar, and
> toolbar at the top, then a NOTEBOOK, with a HBOX in each page of the
> NOTEBOOK. Each hbox contains a TEXT box (main editing area) with a
> scrollbar created on the right side. I can only use my mouse wheel to
> scroll the TEXTbox when the pointer is over the scrollbar widget.... it
> does not scroll if i use the wheel when over the text box...

Put the text widget inside a GtkScrolledWindow (using gtk_container_add()) 
rather than hooking up the scrollbar yourself.

                                        Owen