Re: [gtk-list] Re: GtkText widget handling of "default values"

[john giorgio hart bbk ac uk]

Andreas Tille <tille@physik.uni-halle.de>
>... the wished effect of
>changing the default value can only be obtained when reaching
>the entry widget via <Tab>.  If I set the focus with the mouse
>this is interpreted like a cursor move and I can't get rid of
>the value by just pressing a letter.  

Hi Andreas, you could attach a signal to "focus_in_event" and do the
select_region then. That would work for mouse and for <tab>.

>... I would wish the gtk_editable_select_region()
>behaviour for the GtkFileSelection widget when using
>gtk_file_selection_set_filename().

You should be able to do a similar trick here: attach a signal to
filesel->selection_entry. 

John
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