Re: [albireo-dev] Initial scrolling of Swing text fields

[Gordon Hirsch <gordon.hirsch@xxxxxxx>]

Are you running inside Eclipse? If so, you may not have noticed the 
focus as it moves into the toolbar and status area. It's easy to miss, 
and that sounds like approximately the right number of tab stops, 
depending on how you have things configured.

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hello Gordon,
>
> > My attempts to force the scroll by re-setting the caret position were,
> > in some cases, being optimized away. I've changed the code, and proper
> > scrolling occurs with the TextFieldsView on both Windows and Gtk.
>
> Thanks! Now the scrolling is right also for me, in the TextFieldsView.
>
> I added the test case to the wiki: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Albireo_Test_Cases .
>
> > There also seems to be a separate problem with tab traversals on the
> > TextFieldsView which I will investigate.
>
> Yes, what I see is that while pressing tab 6 times (starting with the 4th
> text field), no visual feedback for the focused component is present; then,
> at the 7th one, the "Text fields" tab header is focused. As if there were
> 6 invisible but focusable components at the end of the traversal list.
>
> Bruno