Re: Setting a default control in a windows

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:14 -0600, Bob Caryl wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> >On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 08:46 -0600, Bob Caryl wrote:
> >  
> >>Hello All,
> >>
> >>Gonna try this question again:
> >>
> >>I am trying to set a button in my window to be the "default" widget, 
> >>i.e. this buttons "on_clicked" connected function will be executed when 
> >>the enter key is pressed when this window has focus. 
> >>
> >>The code I'm using is as follows:
> >>
> >>   default_button->set_flags(Gtk::CAN_DEFAULT);
> >>   default_button->grab_default();
> >>   this->activate_default();
> >>    
> >
> >I think you want to use Gtk::Window::set_default(). Maybe you are
> >confusing that with activate_default().
> >
> >This is easier with libglademm.
> >
> >  
> Hey Murray,
> 
> I tried activate_default to no avail.

set_default().

>   The application has three 
> Gtk::Entry objects.  When run, the window appears with one of these 
> Gtk::Entry objects having focus.  Perhaps there is something I should to 
> in relation with the Gtk::Entry object?  Perhaps it needs to signal the 
> window that the enter key has been pressed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Caryl
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