Re: Can't grab keyboard

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972 hotmail com> writes:
> 
> I am trying to grab the keyboard using the command gdk_grab_keyboard() and am passing
> (GtkWidget *)->window, FALSE, GDK_CURRENT_TIME as paramaters. The function is executed
> just before gtk_main(). But I am unable to grab the keyboard. Am I doing something
> wrong here.

What do you mean by "unable", are there error messages?

> The reason I am doing this because, we are trying to convert some Xlib based legacy
> software into Gtk/Gdk based. As a first step we are developing the GUI part first. On
> this note, I also would like to find out how easy (or hard) it is to integrate Xlib
> based command into Gtk/Gdk (like the following):
> 
> Dispay *display;  display variable in Xlib apps.
> 
> XGetInputFocus(...); To get the current input focus window
> 
> XSendEvent;
> 

Sure, those work fine. Include gdk/gdkx.h to get access to the stuff
you need.

Havoc