[pygtk] Clock Widget - some issues

[Shandy Brown]

Hi all.

I'm trying to write a Clock widget.  I have some constraints - I'm using
Glade and can't use GNOME, so this is just plain GTK.

What I've done so far is make 5 GtkEntry widgets side by side (00, :,
00, :, 00).  Then beside those, I've put a GtkSpinButton whose width is
exactly the size of the up/down arrows, so that you can't see the text
part.  See the attached image.

Surrounding all those is an unlabeled frame just for esthetics.

First of all - does anyone see anything fundamentally wrong with this
construction approach?

Ok, so my first challenge is getting the focus to change from one "00"
GtkEntry to the next.  When I type "1234", I want to see 12:34:00.
Similarly for "12<tab>34".

So I'm listening for the insert_text event, and then doing a check,
   widget.get_position() >= widget.get_max_length()
If that is true, I try to emit a key press event to tab over to the next
GtkEntry.  But this isn't working for me.  Here's the code I've got so
far:

            event = gdk.Event( gdk.KEY_PRESS )
            event.keyval = TAB_KEYVAL
            event.window = widget.get_parent_window()
            widget.emit( 'key-press-event', event )

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be using for TAB_KEYVAL.  I'm also not
sure if this is the right approach to advancing focus.  Any advice?

sjbrown
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