Wish: Could use the "TAB" key with GUI elements...

[christianclavet]

Hi,

I tried to use the TAB key in a custom GUI element (kind of code editor), and each time the only thing that seem to work is a focus change.

I looked at the source and it seem that the KEY is dedicated to focus change. Nothing will change that behavior unless we modify the source...

Would be really nice that the key checking could be disabled by a flag (boolean) that would tell that the currently focused element would "forbid" a focus change. So we could use the key inside our GUI Element. Perhaps something like this:

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GUIElement->setNoFocusChange(true);

Right now, the only way I will be able to use that key is to modify the source and I can't do that with my current project.

So I'll keep that as a wish...

[CuteAlien]

I guess it would makes sense checking for focus after the element has handled the event and not before that. Then you can just return true in the event-receiver for the tab-key to mark it as handled. I have to check if this conflicts with any of the existing elements, but I don't think so.

[CuteAlien]

Seemed to work. It's in svn trunk r3757

[christianclavet]

Thanks CuteAlien!