Hi,
I apologize for replying so late. I've been on leave for the last
three weeks and I'm finally catching up on correspondence. My comments
are below:
Markus Keller wrote:
What I see is that when the breadcrumb drop-down is opened using the
keyboard or using the drop-down action button, the focus is set to the
drop-down immediately. However, when the drop-down is opened by
mouse-clicking on one of the breadcrumb items, the drop-down is opened,
but the focus is not set to the shell. Only when user clicks in the
drop-down, if finally gets the keyboard focus.
When the user clicks the item, we open the drop-down as a courtesy, but
the user's action was really to select
the item in the breadcrumb. The focus needs to stay on the item, so that
the user can open a context menu or
invoke any action that works with the item as selection (e.g. Search, Show
In, etc.).
When the user clicks the arrow button, she really asks for the drop-down,
and in this case, we do give focus
to the drop-down.
This makes sense and was more less my assumption. The only problem is
that creating the drop-down and not giving it focus makes it harder to
correctly manage the popup, e.g. bug 230222. BTW, I'm sorry about
breaking the process on this bug, I'll open a new one instead shortly.
This has some ugly side
effects, e.g. the scroll-wheel does not work on XP as expected
That's bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75766 . Either
use a better mouse driver
or vote for a solution in SWT. We should not work around this just in some
places in the SDK.
This is the answer I was looking for. Thanks.
I'm very curious to hear your insights, but one option I'm considering
is adding a MouseEnter listener to the drop down, and just grab the
focus as soon as yhe user mouses over the drop-down. This would
minimize the annoying behavior, but it doesn't seem like the "correct"
solution.
Please don't add a MouseEnter listener. We should not impose a specific OS
behavior on the user. On Linux and Windows, the user can choose "focus
follows mouse" mode.
Agreed.
Markus
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Thanks for your help,
Pawel
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