Hi,
When tabbing thru a dialog, the buttons gets hit too.
How can i change the tab order or tell that a particular button must not get the focus, when tabbing thru the dialog?
BR Thomas
Hi, could you provide a little more context around what you’re trying to do? Making a button inaccessible with keyboard sounds like an unusual approach.
Hello.
I have a dialog with some gtk-entries and buttons.
The user tabs thru the dialog, and enters data.
If there is buttons among the gtk-entries, the user has to tab another time, to get to the next gtk-entry. I think that will be irritating for “him”.
The buttons can still be activated with the mouse or a shortcut.
BR Thomas
Thanks, sorry, i forgot i use gtk3 
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Found the same page under gtk3 docs, but nothing about the tab-order.
If i remove the focus on a button, then of-course it would work, but then the downside is, that clicking the button wouldn’t work.
BR Thomas
I think you’ll have to either live with some “excess” tabbing, or group all the buttons together above/below the entries in question. The buttons have to be keyboard focusable somehow, since not everyone might be physically able to use a pointing device.
If there are a lot of entries in the app that will frequently be filled out in a repetitive fashion, you might want to consider having a non-tab key combination that focuses the next entry specifically (e.g. Enter, Ctrl+Enter, or Alt+right arrow). By doing this, you could even add convenience behavior such as Ctrl+Enter moving the keyboard focus to the next empty entry.
Thanks, i will group the bottons together instead.
Just wanted to know if changing the tab-order was possible in GTK, like it is in VC/MFC and QT.
BR Thomas
Hi,
Try to look at this: Gtk.Widget.child_focus
But no idea how to override the behavior… Maybe by catching the Gtk.Widget::focus signal from the container?
Thanks 
Nice to hear it’s possible in GTK also, but looks a bit tricky.
At the moment, i’ve grouped the buttons together, in their own area in the window.
BR Thomas