Hi all; I guess to start with, you should look at the drafting program I'm writing at www.efalk.org/Xdraft/dr2.gif so you know what I'm talking about.
First thing I'm trying to do is control what characters a GtkEntry widget responds to. As you can see, there are four GtkEntrys in the picture and they only display numbers. I would like to arrange for them to completely ignore alphabetic characters. The tutorials give methods for changing the contents of entries after the user has typed stuff in, but that's not good enough. The reason is that there are several unmodified keys being used as accelerators (e.g. "x", "y", etc.) and I want the accelerators to work even when the GtkEntry widgets have keyboard focus. Is there a way to do this without subclassing the GtkEntry widget and rewriting its gtk_entry_key_press() function? (I tried connecting a callback to the GtkEntry's "event" signal and returning True, but that didn't work. I tried calling gtk_signal_emit_stop(), but that worked too well, keeping the keystroke from reaching the accelerators either.) Secondly, I'm trying to restrict which widgets can receive keyboard focus. In essense, I want the tab key to move focus only between the four entry widgets. Is there a way to explicitly control traversal order or do I have to clear GTK_CAN_FOCUS on every other widget in the program? I've thought of an alternative way to handle the problem: Is there a way to rig the DrawingArea so that it grabs keyboard focus and holds it permanently, and then sends select characters to the current GtkEntry widget? _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
