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boywithaxe
Asked: 2012-07-27 09:05:31 +0800 CST

A GtkEntry signal emitting at focus change

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I'm writing a very simple app using Glade and PyGtk. In the app, I need to collect user inputs and parse it as a conf file. In order to dump all the freetext user inputs to a StringIO, I am using the on_xxxxxxxx_activate signal.This solution requires the user to hit Enter for the signal to be emitted. Instead I would like to use a signal which emits on focus change (switching to any other field). Does PyGtk provide a signal like that?

Addendum:

The behaviour I am looking for here is the one used by gtk_editable_insert_text. Is there a way of linking a GtkEditable's signal to GtkEntry?

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    gtk.Entry implements the gtk.Editable interface, so you can use those methods on your entry widget without problems. But if I understand your question correctly, you don't want the insert_text signal. You should rather use the focus-out-event.

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