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Bug 18280 - Form Designer swallows keyboard focus
Summary: Form Designer swallows keyboard focus
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: guibuilder
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Tomas Pavek
URL:
Keywords: A11Y
: 18604 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2001-12-03 11:23 UTC by Chris Ledantec
Modified: 2003-06-30 18:27 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Chris Ledantec 2001-12-03 11:23:54 UTC 
the canvas of the form editor swallows focus. once keyboard focus has been moved
into the canvas it is impossible to get it back without using the mouse. this
happens under jdk1.4 rc
Comment 1 Filip Rachunek 2001-12-12 09:22:42 UTC 
Reassigned.
Comment 2 Marian Mirilovic 2001-12-13 13:06:12 UTC 
[jdk1.3.1](01) && [jdk1.4](89)
Comment 3 Marian Mirilovic 2001-12-13 13:06:47 UTC 
*** Issue 18604 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 Tomas Pavek 2001-12-17 18:18:31 UTC 
I've implemented using Ctrl+TAB and Ctrl+Shift+TAB to get out from 
the form designer. TAB and Shift+TAB remain for component selection, 
and still "cycling". Is this acceptable? Or should the selection not 
cycle at all?

There's also a problem on JDK 1.3 - Ctrl+TAB does not work here for 
some reason, although Ctrl+Shift+TAB works. There's probably no way 
how to fix it, due to limitations in focus implementation in 1.3.
However there are no problems on JDK 1.4.
Comment 5 Tomas Pavek 2001-12-17 18:21:19 UTC 
Fixed in dev and 3.3.1.
Comment 6 Chris Ledantec 2001-12-17 18:40:50 UTC 
what you've implemented is fine. ctrl and ctrl+shift tab are both
expected means of getting out of a component that otherwise seems to
swallow tab.
Comment 7 Marian Mirilovic 2001-12-18 10:21:35 UTC 
verified in [nb_release33](20011218) with [jdk1.3.1](01) /
[jdk1.4](89) on Solaris 5.8 / Windows 2000.

It works fine, besides described problems with Ctrl-Tab on
[jdk1.3.1](01).
Comment 8 Quality Engineering 2003-06-30 18:27:04 UTC 
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.