On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:49:33AM -0800, fengzi.gg wrote: > I've got a question: I have a parent-vbox, and I add some > child-widgets such as paned-box, label, entry, text-view in it. Now > when one(it could be anyone) of the child-widgets get focus in, I > wanna get the signal to handle something. > > How should I do? Should I connect "focus-in" signal to every > child-widget, or some better way? I tried to connect "focus-in" signal > to the parent-vbox, but seems not work. Only widgets that can receive keyboard focus themselves can emit "focus-in". But containers have a "set-focus-child" signal so this might be what you need: ===================================================================== import gtk win = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL) win.connect('destroy', gtk.main_quit) hbox = gtk.HBox() win.add(hbox) def child_focused(widget, child, i): print('A child in vbox #%u got focus.' % i) for i in range(3): vbox = gtk.VBox() hbox.add(vbox) for j in range(5): entry = gtk.Entry() vbox.add(entry) vbox.connect('set-focus-child', child_focused, i+1) win.show_all() gtk.main() ===================================================================== Yeti _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list