# Focus on hover

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/focus-on-hover/79723>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [December 18, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/focus-on-hover/79723 "2006-12-18T15:31:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/focus-on-hover/79723/1 "2006-12-18T15:31:17Z")

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**Author:** ![Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/focus-on-hover/79723/2 "2006-12-18T17:33:41Z")

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On Mo, 2006-12-18 at 16:29 +0200, Dobai-Pataky Bálint wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i wanna focus my widgets when pointer is hovering them.
> 
> the best way i could come up is to connect to every widget’s  
> enter-notify-event or expose-event and require focus there form it’s  
> parent window (probably with grab-focus?).
> 
> if there is an easier way to do that, please help me out with it.

Using the enter-notify-event should be the way to go.

Regards,  
Sven

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/focus-on-hover/79723/3 "2006-12-18T18:03:45Z")

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