Cannot give focus to button on dialog

[nbuesing]

I am trying to give focus to the close button of a dialog, when the dialog is displayed. Nothing I do works. Once the dialog is displayed and I press space-bar or enter key, the main button's select event (that had the focus to display the dialog) is being called.

I have provided a test case. If you see comments in my overridden show method, I have tried a variety of ways on calling the focus() method for the button (directly, with scheduled deferred, with scheduled finally, etc).

Internet Explorer 8
Chrome 24
Windows 7, 64 Bit
GWT 2.4 / Developer Mode

FocusIssue.zip

Thanks.

[Andreas Samjeske]

Same here.
I have a TextButton with a SelectHandler. OnSelect a Dialog is created and show() is called.
Afaics, this should bring focus to the first Button of the ButtonBar of the Dialog. Thats NOT the case. Hitting spacebar creates and opens a similar Dialog, since focus is still on the TextButton I klicked.

Even calling focus on the Dialog or one of its Buttons in a deffered scheduler has no effect.

- GXT Version 3.0.0b
- FireFox 17.0.3
- Windows 7
- DevMode


This issue might be related to
http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?249092

[GrecoRS4]

Have you tried the setFocusWidget(Widget widget) method. It works for me to provide focus to widgets within a window/dialog. I also make use of the setTabIndex(int) for each of my widgets in the dialog/window to make sure tabbing flows correctly.

[Andreas Samjeske]

Have you tried the setFocusWidget(Widget widget) method. It works for me to provide focus to widgets within a window/dialog. I also make use of the setTabIndex(int) for each of my widgets in the dialog/window to make sure tabbing flows correctly.

Yep, in the process of finding a workaround I discovered setPredefinedButtons() calls setFocusWidget(FirstOneofTheButtons). That leads to the issue stated above.

Calling setFocusWidget(null) or setFocusWidget(AnyOtherWidgetNOTBeingAPredefinedButton) solves the issue.