On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 20:10 +0100, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:30:08AM -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:34:38 +1100 Justin Clift wrote:
> > > Whenever any gtk program has its menu open, keystrokes don't seem to
> > > be processed for anything other than what's in the menu itself. i.e.
> > > the up, down, and enter keys work (and maybe shortcuts), and that's
> > > it. (These keys move the selection up and down the menu that's open)
> > >
> > > There doesn't seem to be a way to gets other keys fed through to
> > > things expecting them.
> >
> > Yes, when gtk pops up a menu, it does a keyboard grab to ensure that
> > the menu gets all key events.
> >
> > > So, recommendations on what to do from here? Is there a way to tell
> > > GTK to feed keystrokes onwards when a menu is open?
> >
> > I don't believe so, no, but someone else may have a better answer.
I'm not sure what you're looking for, seems normal behaviour
for menus to grab the focus when they're active (at least I'm
used to that behaviour) - if your app has a specific need to
trap a key when a popup menu is active - is there any reason
why using a keyboard snooper[1] wouldnt work ?
Cheers,
-Tristan
[1]
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html#gtk-key-snooper-install
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