We have a situation in our project where we display a dialog (using a
JFace Dialog) and we want to change the default focus from the OK/Cancel
buttons to a button (or other widget type) on the "body" of the dialog.
The "body" is implemented as a SWT Composite. Creating a Composite that
contains all of the widgets for a given screen has been the approach we've
been using for screens in general. This way we can place the composite on
any container (dialog, wizard, editor tab, etc.).
The reason we need to do this is that the user community that will end up
using this will tend to hit Enter/Return on their keyboards to move from
field to field on the screens. (They have been accustomed to using
terminal-based applications and hitting Return is how they enter data and
navigate through a screen's fields.) If they do this on dialogs, the will
trigger the OK button and end up closing the window.
Any ideas on how to shift the focus to where we need it, -or- some other
solution?