Re: TreeView and default widget

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:07:17PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> In my interface i have a button which grabs default focus like this
>
> GTK_WIDGET_SET_FLAGS (GTK_WIDGET(my_button), GTK_CAN_DEFAULT);
> gtk_widget_grab_default (button)
>
> so that it gets activated when the user presses enter key,
> and i also have a Treeview which grabs focus like this
>
> gtk_widget_grab_focus(view)
>
> so that the user can scroll the list without tabbing into it.
> Obviously, when the treeview is active, the enter key no longer 
> activates the button and the user has to tab over it and press space or 
> enter to activate it.
> Is there a solution for this that doesn't require dealing with 
> key_press_event signal?

I suppose the treeview is completely passive when the user
can press Enter and nothing is supposed to happen in the
treeview itself.  Then you can connect to its
"row-activated" signal and handle it as activation of the
button.

Yeti


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