[Cuis-dev] moving focus with tab key

[Juan Vuletich]

Gosh. Last minute rename gone wrong.

Fixed #tabToFocus: . Also added it to TextModelMorph. Hope it is correct 
now.

Thanks for testing and sending feedback!

Cheers,

On 1/31/2025 9:40 PM, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
> It seems that the way to change an instance of TextModelMorph to 
> support using the tab key for moving focus is to do this:
>
>  myInput scroller tabToFocus: false.
>
> This works great!, But I'm wondering if tabToFocus: should also be a 
> method in TextModelMorph which delegates to InnerTextMorph (the 
> scroller) so I don't have to know about scroller. Also, it seems like 
> if I want that behavior, I should set it to true instead of false, but 
> currently I have to set it to false.
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st 
> <mailto:juan at cuis.st>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Mark,
>
>     Thanks for raising this.
>
>     I just pushed two changes that enable tab / shift-tab for all
>     widgets except TextMorphs. But I also added a message to disable
>     tab as a valid input. Then tab controls focus for them too.
>
>     Additionally, adding ctrl makes it work regardless of the text
>     morph handling tab as valid entry.
>
>     Apologies if you feel this should have been sooner in Cuis, saving
>     you some time.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     On 1/30/2025 7:15 PM, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>     I found a better way to handle the tab key for moving focus
>>     between text inputs.
>>     Rather than modify InnerTextMorph or TextModelMorph, I did the
>>     following:
>>
>>     - Created a subclass of InnerTextMorph named InnerTextNoTabMorph.
>>       This overrides the processKeystrokeEvent: method to be the same
>>     as in InnerTextMorph except it does not process tab key events.
>>       I also added an onChange: method that takes a block that it
>>     evaluates every time it processes a key event.
>>
>>     - Created a subclass of TextModelMorph named TextInputMorph.
>>       This has an initialize method that sets up event handling to
>>     handle tab key presses and move focus appropriately.
>>       It implements the innerMorphClass method to indicate that it
>>     wants to use InnerTextNoTabMorph instead of InnerTextMorph.
>>       It implements the onChange: method to forward a block onto the
>>     same method in InnerTextNoMorph.
>>
>>     With these classes in place, my Greeter class uses TextInputMorph
>>     in place of TextModelMorph
>>     and voila tabbing between text inputs works great!
>>
>>     You can find all this code at
>>     https://github.com/mvolkmann/Cuis-Smalltalk-Greeter.
>>
>>     On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev
>>     <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
>>
>>         That would be neat. But a Tab option in TextModelMorph may
>>         prove to be more useful for Widget as in Cuis-Smalltalk-UI.
>>
>>         Le 28/01/2025 à 22:06, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev a écrit :
>>>         Thanks Juan! I'll see if maybe I can create a subclass of
>>>         TextModelMorph that has that behavior. Perhaps each instance
>>>         of the subclass can hold a reference to another morph that
>>>         should take focus when the tab key is pressed. Maybe I can
>>>         create a set of morphs that have that ability such as
>>>         checkboxes, radio buttons, and so on. That would enable
>>>         creating user interfaces that are completely keyboard-driven
>>>         as is common in web interfaces.
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>>
>>
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>>     Object Computing, Inc.
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