Re: Question on gtk_label_set_selectable

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 10:11 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:54 +0200, Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote:
> > 2007/10/19, David NeÄas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>:
> > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:06:55PM +0200, Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote:
> > > > You can also set the can-focus property to FALSE on the label which
> > > > will be still selectable.
> > >
> > > Not exactly.  It will be only selectable *with mouse*.
> >
> > Good point David, I didn't think of that.
>
> GtkEntry has a gtk-entry-select-on-focus property to deal with this.
> Probably GtkLabel should have a similar property - it might be worth
> submitting a bug/feature report.

Actually, on looking it up, I see that there is this property
available, via the GtkSettings object - see gtk-label-select-on-focus
at http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkSettings.html .

The following should do the trick, if the behaviour is wanted on an
application wide basis:

GtkSettings* settings = gtk_settings_get_default();
if (settings) {
  g_object_set(settings,
               "gtk-label-select-on-focus", FALSE,
               NULL);
}

Chris