Re: Automatic focus handling? How do I turn it off?

[Ken Simpson <kens ActiveState com>]

> Widgets are sent key presses before GTK+ checks for focus keys. If the
> widget handles the key press in its event handler and returns TRUE,
> then GTK+ will not check for tab/arrows.
>
> For instance, this is how GtkText prevents a tab key from tabbing out
> of the GtkText widget.

Hrm.. I guess the problem with Mozilla is that I need the keypress event
to live on for a little while so that Mozilla can grab it. I can't just
kill all the navigation keys -- Mozilla needs them so that it can farm
them out to its command system.

i.e., the order of operations should be:

1. Mozilla grabs ALL gdk events and processes them in its own handler
   (i.e. gdk_event_handler_set (handle_gdk_event, NULL, NULL);)

2. Events are then farmed out to the widget from which they
   originated (an nsWindow pointer is stored in the user data of the
   event's any.window object).

3. The widget's key_press handler returns 0 for any keypress which is not
   something simple, like [A-Za-z0-9_-+] etc..

4. (hopefully) The key_press event travels up the window hierarchy to the
   main Mozilla window, where it is ground through the Mozilla keybinding
   system and produces some result. The event then should _die_.

The problem is that, between stages 3 and 4, gtk intercepts the key press
and changes the focus. Yuck. I don't think the fix here is going to be
easy...

Ideas??

TTUL
Ken

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