[Cuis-dev] moving focus with tab key

[Mark Volkmann]

It's perfect now. Thanks!

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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.
>>>
>>> -- http://mamot.fr/@drgeo
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> R. Mark Volkmann
>> Object Computing, Inc.
>>
>>
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> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.
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