Re: [Vala] grabbing keyboard focus with GtkClutterEmbed

[James Moschou <james moschou gmail com>]

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On 20 August 2010 15:53, James Moschou <james moschou gmail com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is probably more of a Gtk question than a Clutter question. I
> have a GtkClutter.Embed in my application, which has an actor that
> responds to keyboard events from every key (it's a text view). The
> problem is that when I press the arrow keys, the focus changes from
> the actor to the surrounding widgets, when really I want the actor to
> handle the arrow key presses to move the cursor.
>
> I have:
>
> embed.button_release_event.connect (() => {
>    embed.grab_focus ();
>    return false;
> });
>
> which activates the stage, then:
>
> this.button_release_event.connect (this.button_release); // Which
> calls this.grab_key_focus () in the callback
> this.key_press_event.connect (this.key_press); // This callback works
> fine until I press one of the arrow keys
>
>
> Cheers
> James