Re: TAB behaviour

[Owen Taylor <owt1 cornell edu>]

Derek Simkowiak <dereks@animal.blarg.net> writes:

> > hello all,
> > 
> >   i noticed that pressing TAB in a GtkTable widget is now more clever
> > because it takes widgets from left to right in a row then to the lower row
> > and so on. that's great.
> >   but i wonder is there any way of changing it ? i mean i want to redefine
> > the tab behaviour dynamically in the program, how could i do it ?
> 
> 	I'm having trouble with TAB on the text widget (I'm using .99.8,
> so please forgive me if it has changed in .99.9).
> 
> 	I can't just TAB into the textfield, type stuff, and then TAB out.

For a fairly good reason. TAB in the Text widget inserts a tab... (The
Text widget has tab stops)

One solution would be to make Ctrl-TAB fake the action that TAB
does elsewhere. This would be consistent with the usage that
Ctrl-RETURN emits "activate" within a Text widget.

Regards,
	                                        Owen