Re: Newbie question - GTK focus order control

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

Thanks.  Looks like v2 is what I really need, but I'll code out some mock 
ups and play around with 1.2.  I can probably find a happy medium with a 
little playing.

Bill

--On Friday, May 25, 2001 01:47:54 PM -0400 Havoc Pennington 
<hp redhat com> wrote:

> "William D. Ezell" <wdezell snowhill com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> It's based on widget positions within each container. The widgets are
> sorted first vertically then horizontally. So the tab focus goes
> top row of widgets, next row of widgets, next row of widgets, etc.
>
> This is within a container though, not "global" for a window. So by
> playing with extra containers you should be able to affect the focus
> to some extent, I think so anyway.
>
> It's fairly lame, but we have fixed it up in the next version, is the
> best comfort I can offer. ;-)
>
> Havoc



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