Re: window/dialog focus

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Tom Knowles" <tom peters co uk> writes:
> I am developing a touch screen EPOS application using gtk. When I raise
> another window/dialog I would like that item to be highlighed. The focus, as
> I call it, remains where the button was pressed and the new item is bordered
> in lowlight until an item is selected on it, by which time it's too late.
> Can I force this situation, so that the new item essentailly 'gets the users
> attention'?

You need a function like this:

void
gdk_window_focus (GdkWindow *window,
                  guint32    timestamp)
{
  g_return_if_fail (GDK_IS_WINDOW (window));

  if (GDK_WINDOW_DESTROYED (window))
    return;
  

 XSetInputFocus (GDK_DISPLAY (),
                 GDK_WINDOW_XWINDOW (window),
                 RevertToNone,
                 timestamp);
}

Which comes with GTK 2, when that's available.

Havoc