Re: Disable ALL keybindings for a specific widgit? [SOLVED]

["Justin Stallard" <darkfloyd7 gmail com>]

On 6/15/07, Justin Stallard <darkfloyd7 gmail com> wrote:
> On 6/15/07, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin bol com br> wrote:
> > On 6/14/07, Justin Stallard <darkfloyd7 gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've looked through the tutorial, faq, API doc, and even google and I
> > > can't seem to find out if there's some way to unbind all the
> > > keybindings associated with a particular widgit. Is there?
> > >
> > > What I want to have is this:
> > > A GtkEntry that does not respond to "Left", "Right", "Insert", or any
> > > other keybindings or key presses so that I can handle them myself as
> > > key_press_events.
> >
> > Well, if you connect a function to key-press-event and return TRUE,
> > the default handler (that does all that) is not run, and the default
> > action does not happen.
>
> When I return FALSE from my callback function, pressing "Tab" would
> cause the "key-press-event" to be first handled by my function, and
> then by the default. Returning TRUE gives me the result I want, and
> "Tab" is only handled by my function. The following keys, however,
> still do not get handled by my signal handler at all, in either case:
> BackSpace
> Return
> Menu
> Insert
> Delete
> Home
> End
> Left
> Right
> KP_Enter
>
> Are these keys handled some other way? What am I not understanding here?

I've discovered what my problem was. I was using
g_signal_connect_after() instead of g_signal_connect(). Using
g_signal_connect() does what I want.

-Justin