Re: how do I tell which widget has the selection

[Mihai Bazon <mbazon websci ro>]

 rob wrote:

> I have a window which contains mostly gtkEntry widgets and a toolbar
> with the usuale cut copy paste buttons. When the user clicks cut/copy i
> want to cut/copy text from widget that has the selection (i.e has the
> blue highlighted look) to the clipboard but I can't figure out how to
> tell what (if any) widget has it.
>
> Anyone know?
Not sure, but here's how I'd do it..

Catch focus_in_event and focus_out_event for those GTK_ENTRY-es, and 
keep a global var GtkWidget* to be always a pointer to the widget that 
has the focus.  You will use that pointer as the widget to which CUT / 
COPY / PASTE operation refers.

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Mishoo