[news.eclipse.technology.albireo] Re: Context Help in SwingControl

[Johannes Utzig <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gordon Hirsch schrieb:
> I've been thinking about this general case a bit. We shouldn't be 
> checking just the direct child for focusability. I've committed a change 
> to CVS that loosens the focusability check to look for *any* child with 
> focusable == true.
>
> I can't tell for sure, but I hope this change would remove the need for 
> your focus listener. It depends on how your Swing component's focus 
> policy is defined.

Hi Gordon,

sorry for my belated reply.
The direct child of the editor extends JScrollPane and its viewport is 
the (focusable) diagram editor. So that would indeed eliminate my need 
for the focus listener hack.
Before implementing this hack I thought about removing the outer 
scrollpane and use a scrollable SWT composite but I came to the 
conclusion that this would probably mess too much with the Swing editors 
behaviour (JComponent#setAutoscrolls for example)
I think your change is a good idea, thank you for that.

Best regards,
Johannes