can I somehow set in what order the text fields become active after pressing the "Tab" button?
I think it depends on when you added the field and not where it is in the form. So can I change this or I should add the fields in the order I want to switch them with the "Tab" button?
Thanks!
There are at least a couple of ways to change tab order.
With the form in design view, right click on an area of the form without a control. On the context menu that appears, click on Tab Order. A dialog will open that will allow you to change the tab order.
Another method is via the property sheet for each control. On the Other tab there is a property for Tab Order. Just set it to whatever you like.
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I'm using Jubula to automate a JavaFX application. The problem is that, when I selected a tabbed component, I want to click right on this component. However, this component isn't mapped cause I selected it with index.
Is there a way to click on it with the right button?
If the mouse in in the component, Jubula does not change the position for the next action(except it is specified in the action).
This means if you select the tab with the select tab action. You could do another action e.g. "select context menu" at the exact same position.
I have some data input fields inside a sap.m.table. Wanted to use Tab key to navigate to the input fields but it doesn't work.
It seems the SAP application interface hasn't implemented this feature.
I tried with some custom function and not working.
Any solution or alternative for this feature?
SAP itself now come up with the solution. Navigation with the TAB key is available form SAPUI5 version 1.44.
SAP NOTE 2387996 - SAPUI5 unable to use Tab to move to next field.
We have to press F2 key to activate this.
It's no longer necessary to use a custom solution for this. As of SAPUI5 version 1.38.0 sap.m.table has a property called 'keyboardMode' that can be set to 'Edit' which will change the tab behaviour to navigate focus through all editable fields in the table.
This mode is suitable if the number of items is limited and if there
are editable fields within the item.
While the last/first interactive element within an item has the focus,
pressing tab/shift+tab moves the focus to the next/previous element in
the tab chain after/before the item .
https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/api/sap.m.ListKeyboardMode
Attach browser event
new sap.m.Input({
value:"{first}"
}).attachBrowserEvent("keydown",function(oEvent){
if(oEvent.key == 'Tab'){
alert(this);//this reference to input control
//Your logic here
}
})
Sample JSBIN
I have a main form...imagine that...that for most of my users will be the only form they use. Naturally, it contains tabs with sub forms.
I have a navigation sub form on the left side of this form that changes based on the user's rights level. Currently, this sub form is all buttons...and 1 always is selected as the default tab stop for that form.
I don't want to highlight any of them at first...and I can remove the highlight by switching off Tab Stops for all buttons. However, I'm not sure that I want to remove that functionality all together...and it still highlights a button. I'd just like for there to not be a default button highlighted.
As you can see, Add Course is 'selected'. I can't seem to find the correct terminology to search for a way to do this. I tried using a smaller button set behind another button, but since it has the focus, it moves to the front. Using a text field with the same colors as the background shows the cursor in a random, blank area...not visually ideal.
I'm sure that there is someone here clever enough to have this figured out. Please enlighten me. I don't care if this can be handled in VBA code or through design view.
"Focus" is the word you're looking for - you don't want any visible control to have the focus when opening the form.
The easiest method is an invisible button: create a button with Transparent = True, and an empty OnClick (i.e. the button does nothing, even when accidentally clicked).
Move this button to the top in the Tab Order, so it has the focus when opening the form.
But if your users use TAB to walk through the buttons, there will be one position where the focus disappears (when circling around from the last to first control). I don't know if it will confuse them.
Create a button on the main form itself.
Named is cmdDummyButton with the following GotFocus event code.
Set the tab order property to 0 (ie first)
Make the button transparent.
This will cause no control on the form to have the focus when it starts up.
Private Sub cmdDummyButton_GotFocus()
Static IveHadFocusAlready As Boolean
If Not IveHadFocusAlready Then
Me.cmdDummyButton.Enabled = False
IveHadFocusAlready = True
End If
End Sub
Sweet.
I'm scratching my head whether this idea is worth exploring:
I'd like to use a tab control to filter a subform field by the value of the tab control page. There are about 5 different values for that field, so it would be neat to have 5 tabs where you click on the tab and see the list of just those matching records.
I'm a bit of an Access 2007 neophyte (haven't designed a DB with Access in years), so these are the problems that need to be solved with this approach.
Is it possible to have the same subform show on every Tab control page?
What's the most efficient way to link the value of the tab to the subform query?
I realize the brain-dead way to do this is simply create a separate subform for each page, but this seems rather inefficient. Or is it?
If you're filtering the same data, you don't need five copies of the subform, you just need to trigger a change of the Recordsource of the subform or apply a filter to it.
There are two approaches I'd consider:
use a tab, but use it just as a tab strip, with the subform not embedded on any page of the form, but below it. In the tab's OnChange event, filter the subform appropriately.
use an option group with toggle buttons and in the AfterUpdate event, filter the subform. This will look just like the tab control with the Style property set to Buttons.
How can I modify a GWT menu - grey out some entries, put a checkmark next to others, according to my application state?
My app has a menu bar across the top - File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, etc. I have a number of paragraphs, each of which could have a different format. When the user clicks on Format, I want the format menu to show a checkmark next to the menuItem that corresponds to the format of the currently selected paragraph. If some formats are inappropriate for the currently selected paragraph, I want to grey those menuItems out.
The main issue is when to do the update: (a) when the Format menu button is clicked, or (b) each time my user selects a new paragraph?
I find option (a) more appealing. But how can I detect this? A MenuItem doesn't have any facility for adding event listeners. It could be a mouseClick that I need, but it might be a mouseOver: if the user clicks on the Insert menuItem the Insert menu will appear, but then if the mouse is moved over Format, then the Format menu will appear.
Option (b) sounds simpler, but wastes more processor time.
For my contextMenu (right click on the paragraph), it's much easier, because the menu is only constructed when the right click happens.
I've resorted to using the square-root symbol (√) for a tick. Does anyone know a nicer way? Do I need to use HTML and use " Plain-Format" for my menu item?
Finally, is there a way to disable (grey-out) a menu item so that it can't be selected?
Option (a) sounds better from a conserving resources point of view.
Instead of using the square-root symbol, why don't you use an image (using the com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Image class)?
I think a more elegant/simple solution might be to use the checkbox class for your menu items. That way you could have automatic ticks/checks instead of having to use an image or the square-root symbol. Also, you will be able to "grey-out" items with setEnabled(false). Otherwise, you will have to write your own widget or add your own functionality to your menu labels in order to "grey-out" items.