[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: JFace Dialog - change default focus

[joseph.gagnon@xxxxxxxxxx (Joe Gagnon)]

Eric Rizzo wrote:

> Joe Gagnon wrote:
> > 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. 

> If you look at the code in Dialog.createButtonsForButtonBar() you'll see 
> that the OK button is created there (via another method, createButton()) 
> and specifed as the default (last argument to createButton()).
> You can override createButtonsForButtonBar() to create the OK button NOT 
> as the default and then set the default button to be whatever you want.
> For setting your own default button, take a look into the 
> Dialog.createButton() method, where you'll see that the setting of 
> default button is done on the Shell.

> Hope this helps,
> 	Eric

Yes, that does the trick. I was able to also to set a button in the 
Composite that sits in the dialog as the default button and it appears to 
work.