Re: Problem with Tabs

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 01:27, Scott Burns wrote:
> Hi,
>     just a quick note to say I found a soloution.  Unfortunately, it 
> required a change to the code behind the gtkwindow.
>
>     What was happening was that when moving through the list of items, 
> forwards or backwards, it would order the list of widgets accordingly 
> and set the focus to the next in the list.  When it was moving back from 
> the first or forwards from the last it would no find the appropriate 
> next item because it wouldn't wrap.  It would fall back and try to focus 
> the default object, which seemed to be null in some of my code, and the 
> first item in others.  The lead to nothing being made active up until 
> this morning, and the first item in the list being half activated since 
> then.
>
>     I changed the code so that if it failed to find the next item it 
> would run the function again.  Because the current item in focus was 
> null (not yet having been set to the default ) it would select the first 
> item it came across.  Because the list was sorted according to how I was 
> moving it selected the correct item.
>
>     The function in gtkwindow.c I changed was 
> gtk_window_key_press_event(), and I changed it to call 
> gtk_container_focus() twice if it failed the first time.
>
>     Anyone know of a better way to have done this?

 * Can't help with GTK+-1.2 ... focus was a little wonky there,
   lots of work done in that area in the last four years.

 * If you can reproduce problem with focus with current versions
   of GTK+, please file a bug in bugzilla, preferrably with a small
   standalone test case.

Thanks,
                                            Owen