Re: tab order and restricting entry widgets

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Dave Reed wrote:

> 
> Is there an easy method to change the focus order when you tab through
> entry widgets.  I've got a bunch of entry and combo widgets in a table
> and I want the tab key to go down the column first rather than across
> the row.  I guess I could use the leave_notify signal for each widget,
> but that would be a pain.

 As for focus order - I don't know any easy solution.
 
> Is there a way to restrict entry widgets to only numeric (and
> only dates would be great also)?

  No special support for this exists, but you always can connect to "changed"
signal, validate the data, and act accordingly. I prefer to disable "OK"
button if data is invalid; coloring the text of the entry with different color
is nice too.

> I skimmed the online documentation and grep'ed .h files, but couldn't
> find anything.  I also tried to search the list archives, but couldn't
> find a search function for the archives (other than loading each month
> into Netscape and using Netscape's find) - am I missing it?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad