+}
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// "focus_in_event"
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+extern "C" {
+static gint gtk_listitem_focus_in_callback( GtkWidget *WXUNUSED(widget),
+                                            GdkEvent *WXUNUSED(event),
+                                            wxWindow *win )
+{
+    if (g_isIdle)
+        wxapp_install_idle_handler();
+
+    g_focusWindowLast =
+    g_focusWindow = win;
+
+    // does the window itself think that it has the focus?
+    if ( !win->m_hasFocus )
+    {
+        // not yet, notify it
+        win->m_hasFocus = true;
+
+        wxChildFocusEvent eventChildFocus(win);
+        (void)win->HandleWindowEvent(eventChildFocus);
+
+        wxFocusEvent eventFocus(wxEVT_SET_FOCUS, win->GetId());
+        eventFocus.SetEventObject(win);
+
+        (void)win->HandleWindowEvent(eventFocus);
+    }
+
+    return FALSE;
+}
+}
+
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// "focus_out_event"
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+extern "C" {
+static gint gtk_listitem_focus_out_callback( GtkWidget *WXUNUSED(widget),
+                                             GdkEventFocus *WXUNUSED(gdk_event),
+                                             wxWindowGTK *win )
+{
+    if (g_isIdle)
+        wxapp_install_idle_handler();
+
+    g_focusWindow = (wxWindowGTK *)NULL;
+
+    // don't send the window a kill focus event if it thinks that it doesn't
+    // have focus already
+    if ( win->m_hasFocus )
+    {
+        win->m_hasFocus = false;
+
+        wxFocusEvent event( wxEVT_KILL_FOCUS, win->GetId() );
+        event.SetEventObject( win );
+
+        // even if we did process the event in wx code, still let GTK itself
+        // process it too as otherwise bad things happen, especially in GTK2
+        // where the text control simply aborts the program if it doesn't get
+        // the matching focus out event
+        (void)win->HandleWindowEvent( event );
+    }
+
+    return FALSE;
+}
+}