It is possible to generate events programmatically in JavaScript. This page gives a good overview of the topic, including key events (look for 'Manually firing events'):
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/domevents. I do not know if generating a tab event like this in a JSNI method would solve your focus problem. If you give it a try, can you please let us know how this fares ? Lukas On May 4, 4:12 pm, Daniel Simons <daniel.simo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am creating a mobile web app with GWT and have discovered that the > TextBox.setFocus(true) method does not work in mobile Safari. I also tried > using JSNI to directly call element.focus(), which also did not work. > Looking at other potential work arounds, the textbox in my application that > I would like to focus on happens to be the input immediately following the > input for which the event is being triggered. Therefore, if I could somehow > simulate the pressing of the "TAB" key inside that event, I could achieve a > similar result to "setFocus(true)". Could anyone explain how I could go > about simulating the TAB Key press? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.