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right now I'm doing the 'create your first ubuntu app' youtube tutorial. I'm trying the text entry box and nothing comes up when I enter text. Here's my code, 

self.urlentry = self.builder.get_object("urlentry")
def on_urlentry_activate(self, widget):
        print "woo!"

when I press enter, or any other button, it does not display 'woo' on the terminal/Command line.

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Not having any experience with quickly, I think you need to somehow attach the event handler (on_urlentry_activate) to the control (self.urlentry) – Sergey Jan 5 at 3:41
Could you explain that a little more. I tried attaching it and the command line said syntax error. – user116943 Jan 5 at 4:00
Actually, I was wrong - I watched the video and it seems that in Quickly those event handlers are found "automagically", no need to bind them explicitly. It would be helpful if you provided more code. – Sergey Jan 5 at 4:18
Alright here is my code. It's exactly the same as his. – user116943 Jan 5 at 4:25
Have you connected urlentry to on_urlentry_activate using glade? – Tachyons Jan 5 at 4:26
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Had a similar problem where I couldn't type in the text entry field as well as the function not working as mentioned above.

My fix was under the common tab for the text entry widget, "can focus" = Yes

I can now enter text and the function runs.

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