Re: Handling the Return key

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 13:41 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:27 -0400, William Ramsay wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can anyone explain to me how to go about handling the pressing of the 
> > return key
> > in a data entry dialog?    For instance, when the user is done entering 
> > data, pressing
> > the Enter button on the keyboard should fire the OK button on the dialog.
> > 
> > I can capture the "click" event easily enough.   And I can  capture the  
> > "key_press_event"
> > and check to make sure it's a Return key, but how do I connect the two 
> > events to
> > the same GTK_RESPONSE_OK result?    The "click" event is established when
> > I set up the button (i.e. with gtk_dialog_add_button).    But the key 
> > press is
> > established with g_signal_connect, which sends control to a handler.  If 
> > you're in
> > a loop checking the user input, you can't easily go off to a separate 
> > handler.
> > 
> > There must be a simple way of doing this, but I have yet to figure it out.
> 
> See Gtk::Window::set_default(), together with
> Gtk::Entry::set_activates_default() and/or
> Gtk::Window::activate_default().  You may also want to consider
> Gtk::Window::set_focus() and Gtk::Widget::grab_focus().

Sorry, wrong list - this is the C++ wrapper.  For GTK+ see
gtk_window_set_default(), gtk_entry_set_activates_default(),
gtk_window_set_focus() and gtk_widget_grab_focus().

Chris