RE: how to get mouse and keyboard focus?

["Marcio Andrey Oliveira ell" <andreyq terra com br>]

Carlos,

I´d like to thank you by your answer.

I read the documentation and I saw that gtk_grab_add() works only for the
same application and not to all running applications.

I used the ideia of the funtion name you gave me and I saw two functions
called gdk_pointer_grab() and gdk_keyboard_grab().

I think that it will solve my problem.

Thanks again.


> Perhaps you could just use a modal window:
>         gtk_grab_add (window)  gtk1.2
> which by definition grabs focus, so everything else
> is blocked. Your dialog window could have only
> a label showing a message, something as:
>
> "time for cofee :-), mouse and keyboard disabled :-("
>
> After some minutes you just remove this
> window and the user has control again.
> If you want (and you know the times)
> you can even add a progress
> bar in continous mode, so the user
> knows how much time has to wait.
>
> If you do this, you must block also
> the delete_event signal in the window,
> so users cannot close it with the
> WM decoration tools, Close, etc...
> (no way to block the Kill though)
>
> This is simple and gives users a clue.
>
> Carlos