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how to move focus between two views with tab key press [message #460818]

Thu, 08 September 2005 01:49

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sendtanmoy.yahoo.co.in

in a perspective i have 2 views, one in the left and the other in the right.
the left view contains different text boxes and the right view displays pdf documents.

i want to move focus from the left view to the right view (displaying pdfs) by key press (tab key).

Kindly help me to implement it.

Re: how to move focus between two views with tab key press [message #460834 is a reply to message #460818]

Thu, 08 September 2005 09:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ddana78ar.yahoo.com.ar

you have to implement the traverseListener and try this:
if (event.character == SWT.TAB){
//you have to do:
rightView.setFocus();
event.doIt(false);
}

Re: how to move focus between two views with tab key press [message #460865 is a reply to message #460834]

Fri, 09 September 2005 01:06

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: tanmoy.chakraborty.gmail.com

i tried to attach both traverseListener or keyListener(to catch key events) with the tabfolder.

the code is used is something like this:
for traverseListener (i was trying to move between two views with tab key press),
tabfolder.addTraverseListener(new TraverseListener () {
public void keyTraversed(TraverseEvent e) {
if(e.character == SWT.TAB) {
{
-- action
}}}});

and for keyListener (i was trying to move between different tab menus with key press) :
tabfolder.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){

switch(e.keyCode){
case SWT.F2:
tabfolder.setSelection(0);
break;
case SWT.F3:
tabfolder.setSelection(1);
break;
case SWT.F4:
tabfolder.setSelection(2);
break;

}}});

but i am not able to catch the key events in the tab folder.

kindly help to correct my error.

Re: how to move focus between two views with tab key press [message #460883 is a reply to message #460865]

Fri, 09 September 2005 08:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ddana78ar.yahoo.com.ar

may be, you have the focus in any other widget instead of the tabFolder. You have to set the traverseListener to the widget that you want to traverse from.
e.g. a button inside the tabFolder. So, button.addTraverseListener...

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