I am aware that I can get a children list and cycle through them to set the tab order. As much control as I want in my own programs, I am kind of ashamed that I was looking for an easy way out of my problem. Trading control for simplicity is kind of like trading security for freedom!
Thanks to all, tom Derrell Lipman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, tsmiller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> My program uses the concept of an 'edit group' that allows the end user >> to >> customize both the number of and the content of each group. Each group >> consists of a set of textfields for data entry. The end user can move >> the >> textfields up or down within the edit group. He can also move a >> textfield >> from one group to another, create a new group, and resize and reposition >> each group. He can also choose to show or hide each group. So, my >> problem >> is that each time a group is moved, shown, hidden, or resized - I >> potentially have to redo the tab order for the affected groups. >> > > If it turns out, as I expect it will, that there's no way to change the > browser's default tab order selection, you may find it useful to work with > the getChildren() method of any widget. This method returns an array of > children, so given a knowledge of what the children are you should be able > to reassign the tab order of the children based on their rendered > location. > You could do that by listening for the "appear" event and reassigning the > tab order within the handler function for that event. That event is fired > after all widgets layout is complete (and in fact, the widgets are > visible) > so you have reliable data on which to determine the order. > > Derrell > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/tab-order-coordinate-system-tp22420862p22427357.html Sent from the qooxdoo-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
