On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:24:52PM +0800, Calin Vatavu wrote: > I have an entry in fixed widget contained by an event_box and the event box gets all the keystrokes until you click on the text entry. > > What I want is when I click back on the event box's background the keyboard focus to switch back to the event_box so that it gets all the keystrokes again. > > How can I do that? gtk_widget_grab_focus doesn't work on non-focusable widgets like event boxes. You can use GTK_WIDGET_SET_FLAGS(eventbox, GTK_CAN_FOCUS) to make it focusable. Yeti -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list