[Haskell-cafe] haskell-gtk entry question

[briand at aracnet.com]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:44:44 +0100
Claude Heiland-Allen <claude at mathr.co.uk> wrote:

> Perhaps it's a terminology confusion: in GTK, "activate" for an entry
> means "pressing return key".  This program works fine for me, pressing
> return prints the text I entered in the box:
> 
> ----8<----
> import Graphics.UI.Gtk
> 
> main :: IO ()
> main = do
>   initGUI
>   window <- windowNew
>   entry <- entryNew
>   set window [ containerBorderWidth := 10, containerChild := entry ]
>   entry `on` entryActivate $ putStrLn =<< entryGetText entry
>   onDestroy window mainQuit
>   widgetShowAll window
>   mainGUI
> ----8<----

yes that's part of the problem - I thought that tabbing through the fields should be an "activate" event.  still I had some other problem, and I'm not sure what it was.  however thanks to your example I now have the dialog working as it should.

thanks very much !

Brian