Hi Doug, Thanks for the insight. I managed more or less on my own (and sheer luck to get something working).
I can now focus a table, set the highlight, move the highlight up and down (+ left and right on multicolumn tables) and also select a item. I just wished Palm had released a decent API ... but I guess that would go against their offical policy of pissing of developers ;-) /brian > I think that your call to TblSetSelection or TblSelectItem is undoing the table focus and the halo ring. I fully support the one-handed nav in my app, which is heavy on tables, but I pretty much had to take over all of the management of the selected items in the table. Mixing the "old" table-selection support with the new navigation might be difficult. > > Basically there are two different "modes" of focus when dealing with tables: making the table itself the selection, and making items within the table a selection. The built-in apps work pretty much this way. When moving around the form, the table itself receives focus and the halo is usually drawn as bars above and below. Then, when the user presses the Select button, it goes into "item" mode and a particular row or table cell is highlighted by specifically calling the DrawFocusRing routine. Usually, doing something like pressing the Left key will take you back to the full table focus. > > In some other cases, when I get the TakeFocus event for a table, I just go directly to highlighting the first row, and the user can navigate from there. But for scrolling tables, you have to have a way for the user to move the highlight around within the table and still be able to "escape" from the table and navigate to other controls on the form. > > This is tricky, but it works very nicely when it's finally working right, and I know that my users have appreciated it. > > Doug G > -- > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
