Bug 232579

Summary:

[Help][Search] Help/Search does not always set focus to search type in area

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Chris Goldthorpe <cgold>

Component:

User Assistance

Assignee:

Chris Goldthorpe <cgold>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Keywords:

accessibility, polish

Version:

3.4

Target Milestone:

3.5 M1

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

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Patch	none

Description Chris Goldthorpe

2008-05-16 15:22:55 EDT

I20080515-2000

Select the menu item Help/Search

The help view is shown with the search tab visible as expected but the type in area for the search area does not have focus. This is a regression since Eclipse 3.3.

Comment 1 Chris Goldthorpe

2008-05-16 15:24:15 EDT

This should be fixed for RC2.

Comment 2 Chris Goldthorpe

2008-05-19 18:25:39 EDT

After further investigation this is not a regression. There are some scenarios where the typein does not get focus but these are the same in Eclipse 3.4 as in Eclipse 3.3.

Here's one scenario which often fails 
Help/Search (focus is set correctly)
Enter "platform" in the typein and hit GO
Click on the All topics to hide the search tab
Help/Search

Expected Result: focus is on the search typein.
Actual result: most times I tried this the focus was not on the search typein.

This still should be fixed in the future but not for RC2.

Comment 3 Chris Goldthorpe

2008-07-14 15:34:55 EDT

Created attachment 107368 [details]
Patch

Comment 4 Chris Goldthorpe

2008-07-14 15:36:44 EDT

Fixed in HEAD. The help part was trying to remember which control in each tab had focus but it would often remember the wrong control. Letting each tab handle it's own focus behavior works better.