See [1] for the method I was talking about... https://github.com/apache/flex-sdk/blob/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/FocusManager.as#L1336
2013/5/7 Cosma Colanicchia <cosma...@gmail.com> > Thanks Alex. > > In my test I was never preventing it, but the tab focus movement to the > next component was not worked (I expected to always move forward, at > least): for some reason, the internal focus target was not part of the > FocusManager tab loop candidates. I saw that, in this case, the > FocusManager does a second pass on candidates and stops on the *first* > candidate "owning" the current focused element, which works with simple UIs > but often produce incorrect results (e.g. when the component is in an > Accordion). Maybe the FocusManager could at least use the *last* owning > candidate (thus narrowing the search towards the tree leaf), instead of the > first one? > > > > > 2013/5/7 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> > >> That interface is, in fact, only for the initial assignment of focus to >> the >> component that wraps multiple targets. That wrapping component must then >> manage tab focus on its own by handling the keyFocusChange event and >> calling >> preventDefault on it when it wants to keep focus on one of the wrapped >> controls. >> >> HTH, >> -Alex >> >> >> On 5/7/13 8:33 AM, "Cosma Colanicchia" <cosma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Anyone know something about this interface ([1] on github)? >> > >> > Its asdoc states "the IFocusManagerComplexComponent interface defines >> the >> > interface that components that can have more than one internal focus >> target >> > should implement in order to receive focus from the FocusManager" - so I >> > tried to implement it this scenario, but it does not seem to work. >> > >> > In particular, the FocusManager implementation look for it when it must >> > give focus to a component (see [2]), however tab focus management seems >> > broken using it (I think that FocusManager should check if the current >> > focus is on a component that is an "internal focus target" of a complex >> one >> > when looking it up in the tab loop, to correctly determine the next >> focus >> > manager component). >> > >> > >> > [1] >> > >> https://github.com/apache/flex-sdk/blob/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/sr >> > c/mx/managers/IFocusManagerComplexComponent.as >> > >> > [2] >> > >> https://github.com/apache/flex-sdk/blob/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/sr >> > c/mx/managers/FocusManager.as#L1450 >> >> -- >> Alex Harui >> Flex SDK Team >> Adobe Systems, Inc. >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> >> >
