Re: global cursor setting?

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Alan> Does anyone know how to go about setting a window containing multple
    Alan> widgets to have a single cursor?  I am currently trying to modify
    Alan> the gtkfilesel.c file to change the cursor to a GDK_WATCH regardless
    Alan> of which widget the cursor is over while performing filename
    Alan> completion stuff using;

    Alan> gdk_window_set_cursor(GTK_WIDGET(fs)->window,
    Alan> gdk_cursor_new(GDK_WATCH));

    Alan> The code compiles fine, but the cursor does not change at all when I
    Alan> run the code?!?!?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

For fileselection, I think you may have to get the parent of the widget
returned when one is created.  Otherwise, setting the cursor on a dialog
widget should work for all it's children as well.
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