Re: Focus on Switching Pages

[Ken Steen <ksteen earthlink net>]

> I've got a GTK program I'm working on that uses a bunch of notebook pages to
> display network connection related stuff. (A MU* client) Each page has a
> zvt_term and text entry widget on it. Is there an easy way to focus on the text
> entry widget every time the user changes the page?

Just connect to the page switch event.

gtk-signal-connect(GTK_OBJECT(notebook), "switch-page",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(notebook_cb), NULL);

Then in the notebook function have the entry grab the focus.

void
notebook_cb(GtkNotebook *notebook, GtkNotebookPage *page,
        gint page_num, gpointer data)
{
        gtk_widget_grab_focus(GTK_WIDGET(your_entry_widget);

        /* If the entry has text in it you might need to set
         * the position of the cursor.
         */
        gtk_editable_set_position(GTK_EDITABLE(your_entry_widget), 0);
}

Ken