Re: Can A Drawable Canvas Receive Key Events?

[Mike Melanson <mike multimedia cx>]

Mike Melanson wrote:
> I found that when I put a big text widget inside the XEmbed'ed GtkPlug 
> container instead of a big drawable canvas, it was able to receive 
> focus. Digging into the GTK source code, I noticed that it calls 
> gtk_widget_grab_focus() when it receives a button press event. So I did 
> the same for my canvas widget when the user clicks in it, and it seems 
> to work. The widget retains focus until the user clicks outside of the 
> window.

I missed a crucial step here. You also need to specify that the 
ordinarily non-focusable widget can receive focus by setting its 
"can-focus" property:

  GTK_WIDGET_SET_FLAGS (GTK_WIDGET(my_widget), GTK_CAN_FOCUS);

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        -Mike Melanson