Re: Checking for window inactivity

[Luke McOmber <lmcomber rochester rr com>]

Scanning all the children to see who has the focus seems to work good
enough, except for the case of bringing up any of the right click popup
menus. The popup menu of the textview doesn't seem to be considered a
child of the textview. And from what I remember of a comment in
gtkmenu.h, menu's can't have focus. 

I can check if the textview's popup menu is mapped, but this seems like
a bad solution because I would then have to check every widget that can
bring up a popup menu to see if it's menu is mapped.

Is there something I'm missing?

ps, sorry if this topposts, I inadvertently lost the original

~Luke


On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 17:55 -0700, Alem Dain wrote:
> Unfortunately I think that when the popup menu appears, focus switches
> to it automatically, and so the window really *has* lost focus.
>
> Easiest solution I can see is to examine all the children
> (recursively) of the window that has "lost" focus, and check to see if
> any of them has focus.  You can do this using gtk_container_forall()
> or gtk_container_foreach() (probably the latter is more approrpiate
> here).  Perhaps GTK has some functionality that will check this sort
> of thing for you, but I couldn't find it.
>
> There's a gtk_window_has_toplevel_focus() which seems to me to be
> intuitively what you'd want, but it seems to always report exactly the
> opposite of what I'd expect.  Hmm.
>
> -Adam
>
>
>
> On 6/5/05, Luke McOmber <lmcomber rochester rr com> wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I have hopefully a simple question. I have a window that contains a
> > textview in it. I want to change the background color of the textview
> > whenever the window becomes inactive, i.e. whenever the title bar
> > becomes grayed out.
> >
> > I tried using the "focus-out-event" on the window along with
> > gtk_window_is_active(). But that changes the background color even when
> > you right click on the textview.
> >
> > How can I truly tell when the window becomes inactive?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Luke
> >
> >
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