Re: controlling the focus order.

[Neil Dugan <debain_programer butterflystitches com au>]

Neil Dugan wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
>
>
> > On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 22:50 +1000, Neil Dugan wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > I found the Gtk2::Controller->set_focus_order() function, but I was 
> > > unable to find anything on how to use it.
> >
> >
> > I suppose you mean Gtk2::Container->set_focus_chain() here.  To use it,
> > just supply an ordered list of widgets that should be in the chain:
>
> yes, typo sorry.
>
> >  @chain = ($widget1, $widget2, ...);
> >  $container->set_focus_chain (@chain);
> >
> > Or, of course:
> >
> >  $container->set_focus_chain ($widget1, $widget2, ...);
>
>
> I tried using set_focus_chain() on the window object that didn't
> affect anything,  I then tried using set_focus_chain() on the first
> Vbox that is packed into the window, that did do something.  When the
> <tab> key it hit the entry widget that is first emits a
> 'focus-out-event' signal, then the focus returns to the first widget,
> it doesn't move to the second widget in the chain.
>
> Regards Neil.

I found out what I needed to do. :)

As my layout was done with several nested HBox and VBox containers I 
needed to use the set_focus_chain function in several places.  As each 
set_focus_chain affects only the widgets added to it (and not those 
further down the tree of widgets).

Again thanks for the answers.

Regards Neil.