Re: Newbie question - GTK focus order control

["William D. Ezell" <wdezell snowhill com>]

Ah.  That would explain why I've not seen altering it addressed.

So, to implement a design that makes the best of the default behavior what 
should one expect that behavior to be?  Is order determined by the order in 
which the widgets are created in code or by their final positions in the 
container/window/whatever (e.g., something like order = upper-left to 
bottom-right)?

I hope the answer is the former, because the latter would preclude 
potentially useful layouts like multi-columnar arrangments where you'd fill 
in a bunch of stuff top-to-bottom on the left side of an arrangement before 
comitting via button(s) on the right.

Sorry for 50 questions up front.  I know "code and ye shall see" will 
reveal all things but I'm still doing more evaluation than design right now.

Thanks,
Bill


--On Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:58:45 PM -0400 Havoc Pennington 
<hp redhat com> wrote:

> "William D. Ezell" <wdezell snowhill com> writes:
> > I'm about to tackle my first GUI Linux project and am doing all the
> > reading I can on GTK but have not yet seen anything addressing what
> > seems a most basic issue -- how does one establish focus order amongst
> > multiple GTK controls on a form (akin to VB's "tab order" properties).
> > Is order fixed in an upper-left to bottome-right sequence or is it
> > tailorable?
>
> It is not changeable in GTK 1.2, but your question is a good one, this
> feature is useful. GTK 2 provides a better default order and also
> gtk_container_set_focus_chain() which sets the focus order for a
> container.
>
> Havoc



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