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bvanvelsen - ACA Group
bvanvelsen - ACA Group

Reputation: 1751

Pressing TAB key loses focus on widget

I am using a Table component in SWT. Whenever I edit a value in this table and press enter, this value is saved in the text component in this table.

But when I want to enter 2 words seperated with a TAB between them, then the editor loses focus and moves on to the next cell to edit(like pressing tab in a browser form). I don't want this to happen and let my users enter tabs between words without the focus getting lost. Anyone have an idea how to create this?

I allready tried using a keyListener, but it seems the tab event isn't even processed by this listener

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1369

Answers (1)

Alex Stybaev
Alex Stybaev

Reputation: 4693

You could add a TraverseListener to your textField.

text.addTraverseListener(new TraverseListener () {
        public void keyTraversed(TraverseEvent e) {
            switch (e.detail) {
                case SWT.TRAVERSE_TAB_NEXT:
                case SWT.TRAVERSE_TAB_PREVIOUS: {
                    e.doit = false;
                }
            }
        }
    });

Check out this example code snippet.

Upvotes: 5

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