I have a question related to this.
I have a KeyPressHandler in the TextBox. When the user presses
Enter, I want to simulate it as Tab.
I have added the necessary code to capture the 'Enter event, and then
I fire the new event using the DomEvent.fireNativeEvent.
NativeEvent tabEvent =
Lex, here's a thought: can you determine which Widget or DOM element
that you want to gain focus when the user hits ENTER? If you can,
don't bother creating that event, just talk directly to the widget or
the DOM element through JSNI and give it focus. I don't know why your
solution doesn't work,
Thanks for your input.
Yes. I know such solution works, but since the order of the widget isn't
consistent and changes every time the screen is rendered, I need to perform
some calculation to figure out the next widget with higher tab index to get
focus.
I was hoping that by firing a key press
I can understand that. I am going to hazard a guess that firing an
event and setting the value of the keycode to the TAB key likely is
only useful for any code that Handles such a keystroke... it won't
actually invoke the Tab keypress event in and of itself. Course, this
is just a guess, I don't
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
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
