Re: stop focus-out-event in GtkEntry GTK 2.0

[Sebastian Knappe <sebastian online de>]

> Hi all,
>
> I have some trouble with the focus-navigation too.
> I add different callbacks to to the focus-out-event of an GtkEntry.
> The callbacks validate the input that where made in the entry and if 
> the tests fail,
> I do an gtk_signal_emit_stop_by_name( widget, "focus-out-event" )
> to prevent the following callbacks from running and grab the focus in 
> the entry.
> It's an port of an old and huge motif project, so I have to do it this 
> way.
> The problem:
> gtk stops the "focus-out-event", ok
> but gtk emits the "focus-in-event" for the following widget and the 
> entry  with  the
> "stopped focus-out" signal will get the focus never again.
> Who knows why gtk does it so?
> Regards,
> Sebastian