Re: Signal ?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jan Hendrik Ribbat <jan-hendrik ribbat sysde eads net> writes:

> Hi everybody
> 
> 
> i have a small problem with gtk. I have an entry-widget that is being
> updated by an function called by
> 
> 
> 
> 	 gtk_idle_add((GtkFunction)Messaging_Client, (gpointer)entry);
> 
> 			/-----------/
> 	
> 	entry = gtk_entry_new_with_max_length(maxlength);    <--- this is my
> text entry 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    		/*	Function  Messaging Client   */
> 
> 
> 		 char *str =  g_strdup_printf ("%d", integer_value);
>     		 gtk_entry_set_text (GTK_ENTRY(entry), str);	
> 
> 
> This updating is working fine but before updating I want to ask if a
> user is actually editing in this entry-widget  to avoid autmatic
> updating in this case...
> Because now the user isn't able to edit the entry because it's always
> updated before he is able to press enter :)

You want to check: GTK_WIDGET_HAS_FOCUS (entry).

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Regards,
                                        Owen