[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: [JFACE] loose focus from SourceViewer

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Raheel Ashraf wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a editor, which among things has a SourceViewer. The problem is 
> that when this SourceViewer has focus, I press tab, it actually puts a 
> tab in the code. So how do I give focus to other controls in the 
> editor using the keyboard. This is a big accesbility problem for us, 
> so any help would be appreciated..
This is the correct behavior for the source viewer. Having said that, 
you have several choices:
1) use Ctrl+Tab to switch to the next widget
2) use the Text widget instead
3) add a VerifyKeyListener to viewer.getTextWidget() and do the 
traversal yourself

Dani