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20031216 You cannot tab around views or tool items on GTK. You can in Windows. STEPS 1) Go to the a view 2) Select Tab, Shift Tab or Control Tab. None of these allow navigation anywhere. I suspect this is an SWT issue but I am logging tio UI in case it s a keybindigns problem
On Windows, I can tab between the active view and items on the toolbar (but not between views) On GTK, I can tab around the active view. You seem to be indicating something more severe than this. Could you be a bit more precise?
If you look the the CVS Repositories view I cannot tab anywhere using any combination. Gte there via Ctrl+F7 and then try from there.
SWT: Sounds like a problem with you guys. We don't trap tab events.
*** Bug 48331 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is now a general problem. In Windows you cannot tab to give focus to the current tab from most views. When you can (Threads and Monitors can do this) when you can move to the next tab but the label of the tab is not passed on to MSAA. Upping to major as this affects us everywhere. Also see Bug 10846
I believe the problem with tabbing in views was introduced by us in the new look work. The workbench used to set the tab order for a ViewPane explicitly to include the view, its toolbars, the main toolbar, the shortcut bar, in roughly top-down, left-to-right order. Should be easy to tell if this is an SWT problem with a standalone example.
If I simply run the ControlExample (uses platform TabFolder) or the CustomControlExample (uses CTabFolder) I can tab through all controls on all platforms *except* ToolBar on GTK. In other words, the tabs that you see in eclipse views and editors should all be keyboard accessible using TAB or CTRL+TAB in the forward direction, or SHIFT+TAB to go in the reverse order. Nick is correct that something has changed with the new look. In fact in build 20040310, the eclipse tab order is fairly badly broken on Windows also. Each view may need to have its tab order explicitly set, or you need to carefully go and redo whatever it is that you did before the new look was introduced. I don't really know why this is necessary - perhaps because of the Tod, can you make sure the correct UI person is assigned to this bug? Thanks. We will keep bug 23566, which specifically covers the problem with toolbar on GTK.
Changing summary to indicate that tab order is broken, and moving back to UI. Note that SWT is working on the "toolbar buttons don't take focus" problem (bug 23566).
Confirmed that this is fixed due to the tab folder work done by SWT in build 20040504
