Re: Event for GtkWindow "focus"?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:14:31PM +0100, Robert Roebling wrote:
> 
> I know about the "focus_in" and "focus_out"
> events, but they can fail. If you e.g. have
> a GtkCombobox or a GtkOptionMenu control
> in your dialog and you want to select an
> item in one of those control, a small window
> will shortly appear. This window uses the
> "override/redirect" style, but still gets
> the focus and the dialog will lose the
> focus, i.e. it will get a focus_out event.

The WM is also using focus_in/focus_out events. The trick is to ignore
events which are caused by grabs. In Xlib this is
NotifyGrab/NotifyUngrab, I'm not sure how/if it gets translated to
GDK.

Havoc