Re: automatic selection of text in entries on focus in

[Yann Leydier <yann leydier info>]

Thanks a lot ! It works !

signal_focus_in_event() is still useful since it allows to get the 
widget's coordinates.

I suppose this is the weight of legacy…

Thanks again !
yann

On 02/04/12 16:00, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> 2012-04-02 11:29, Yann Leydier skrev:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have entries that I fill when they get the focus. The text I set is
> > automatically selected and I don't want that. In my application, the
> > user should be able to append text immediately.
> >
> > Neither set_position nor select_region have any effect.
> >
> > I made my focus_in() callback return "true" to prevent the event from
> > being passed further, but this did not change anything.
> >
> > Is there any way control this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > yann
> I had to look into the source code of gtk+ and make some tests with gdb
> to find out, and here's what I found:
>
> The focus_in signal is emitted from the default handler of the
> grab_focus signal. That default handler selects all the text after the
> focus_in signal handler(s) have returned.
>
> Try to connect a handler to Gtk::Widget::signal_grab_focus() and
> deselect the text and position the cursor there. Perhaps you can just
> change your focus_in handler to a grab_focus handler. Connect your
> grab_focus handler _after_ the default handler (which is the default
> behaviour of connect()).
>
> Kjell