I agree with this. But from the look I think it would be better the combobox itself has the dotted focus border and not the text field. That would also match the style of other focused widgets. But I don't directly know how to implement this.
Cheers, Sebastian dperez schrieb: > Hi, > > In this screenshot taken from Firefox: > http://www.nabble.com/user-files/236030/Captura007.gif > > we see that the edit field is focused even if it is readonly. > When using the keyboard, the button at the right is just a visual remainder > that we have a list of choices to select from. > I vote for the text field to receive the focus. The main advantages are: > > - you don't have 2 tab stops for the same field > - the textfield can be highlighted when it combo receives focus > > The text field would need also to handle the enter and esc keys for > opening/closing the popup, up and down arrows, .... > > Does anyone have a better idea? > > > Sebastian Werner wrote: >> >> The problem with this is, that you want to have the text-field >> focusable. That's mainly because it could be editable for example. We >> need to find a way to handle both: >> >> To focus the combobox itself (because of the tab-order in a form for >> example) while internally focus the text-field to give the user a >> possibility to directly type in text after focus the field. >> >> I don't think that's easy to fix/improve. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Sebastian >> >> >> dperez schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Finally I have tried to comment out this.setTabIndex(1), and now the >>> behaviour is ok, only the text field is in the tab focus chain. >>> Do you want me to create a patch for this? >>> >>> >>> dperez wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> When I press the tab button and have ComboBoxes, the focus is cycled >>>> between the TextField inside the combo and the ComboBox itself. >>>> I know this by the dotted frame around the control. >>>> >>>> I expect to only receive the focus the TextField, in the tab cycle. >>>> Hopefully to solve this, is as easy as removing this call in the >>>> ComboBox >>>> constructor: >>>> >>>> this.setTabIndex(1) >>>> >>>> Is this a bug or am I missing something? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> David >>>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job >> easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> qooxdoo-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
