[pygtk] problem with focus in notebook

[Mike Bernson]

Walter Leibbrandt wrote:
> Mike Bernson wrote:
>> I have a notebook that I want to control where the focus goes on page 
>> switches.
>>
>> I connect to the switch-page signal.
>>
>> In the handle for the switch-page signal I set the focus to a Entry 
>> widget. The
>> focus ends up on the tab for the page. If I call idle_add with 
>> function to set the
>> focus to the Entry widget it works.
>>
>> I do not like using the idle_add to set the focus widget. It looks 
>> like a hack and
>> I would like to find a better way to handle this.
>>   
> How about using the "show" event of one of the widgets on the page? Like 
> your "top"-level container (the page's child).
> 
> HTH,
> 
The show event does not happen on page switch event but when show or show_all is
called a widget. This happens at the wrong time.