For those interested, here's a way to get the desired result. The
source of gtkentry.c shows that if the entry receives a click, it
resets the selection to the current position of the cursor. Hence the
following button-press-event callback works:
static gboolean event_cb(GtkWidget*w,GdkEvent*event
Say you have some widgets, one of them being a gtkentry. When you tab
through the widgets towards the entry, its text will be selected when
the entry gets focus. I would like that behaviour also when I just
click the text in the entry.
I connect to the grab-focus signal where I select all availabl