Re: Entrys focus

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Juan Pablo wrote:

> Martyn Russell wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 10:28 -0300, Juan Pablo wrote:
> >
> > > Hellow list! Im new here and obviusly because I have some questions ;-)
> > >
> > > I made a window with several GtkEntry on it and would like that when the 
> > > user press ENTER the next entry get focused, the same behaviour as 
> > > pressing the TAB key but with ENTER.
> > > Whats the correct way of doing this?
> >
> > Have a look at gtk_container_set_focus_chain ().  If for example, you
> > have a GtkHBox with 3 GtkEntry widgets in it, the GtkHBox is the
> > container you would use to get or set the focus chain.
> Thank you for this, it help me with my ooother problem :) but it is not what 
> i asked about :-p.
> I have a window with a lot of entrys and the user needs to complete them 
> quick and easy.
> So, when he press enter i need the next entry get the focus. Just like 
> pressing tab but with enter.
> May I do this by checking the enter key press and emiting a tab? That could 
> be a lot of code for a dialog with 30 entrys if I have to do it one by one, 
> but if it works and there is no other way...

you probably want to connect to the entrie's button-press event and
call gtk_window_move_focus() from there.

this list is about developing glib, gtk+ or language bindings however, not
about developing applications with them.

> Thanks!
>
> Saludos, Juan Pablo.
>
> PS: Is this list for this kind of questions or there is another like 
> gtk-users? The other topics are not like this...

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