Re: Space Bar Issue

[Patrick Jacquot <patrick jacquotf free fr>]

Le samedi 20 mai 2006 Ã 18:26 -0700, developer a Ãcrit :
> Thanks for all of your collective help.
>
> I believe I understand what all of you are
> saying. I was not setting which widget got
> focus when the screen was displayed, but I
> am having trouble with that.
>
> I have a fullscreen window. I have loaded
> a perl package into this window. This perl
> package covers all of the screen real estate
> and populates the top 1/4 of the window with
> buttons using a Gtk2::Fixed widget to set
> them in place.  The bottom 3/4 of the 
> window is blank because I didn't place 
> any widgets there using the "fixed" widget.
> All 18 of the buttons in the top 1/4 of
> the window remain static.(i.e, always displayed).
>
>
> It is the bottom 3/4 of the window where I
> swap perl packages in and out to change
> the purpose of the screen, each screen being
> a perl package put in place using the
> "fixed" widget mentioned earlier. I have
> 120 of these I am working with. When
> I load in one of these packages,
> I use (e.g., $button->grab_focus; or I use
> $label->grab_focus; or $entry->grab_focus
> but they do not have the focus, for when I
> press the spacebar, my "CANCEL" button is
> activated and the previous package is loaded.
> My "CANCEL" button is the last widget on
> the screen in each package.
>
> I'm either using this technique wrong, or
> I am experiencing a bug of some sort.
see also
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/display_man.cgi?id=7a2c5c5dc7e84943516e1970c9629c6f&format=html
(sorry for that long line)
-->set_focus_chain

-- 
Patrick