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.

[pacmendoza]

I'm still having this issue. On load, none of the buttons are focused. I need to press TAB for the focus to go to the first button. Have you tried focusing on one of the buttons on load?

[Colin Alworth]

Which version of GXT are you using? I can reproduce the problem at http://www.sencha.com/examples/#ExamplePlace:dialog in 3.0.1, but not in 3.0.6 at http://qa.sencha.com:8080/examples-3...lePlace:dialog, so it appears to have been fixed.

[pacmendoza]

I'm using 3.0.1. I can see from the release notes that this has been fixed in 3.0.3. I was just wondering if there is a workaround for 3.0.1

[Andreas Samjeske]

I'm using 3.0.1. I can see from the release notes that this has been fixed in 3.0.3. I was just wondering if there is a workaround for 3.0.1

Not exactly a workaround: I managed to have the focus somewhere on my dialog by calling setFocusWidget(null) or setFocusWidget(AnyOtherWidgetNOTBeingAPredefinedButton)

[Andreas Samjeske]

Which version of GXT are you using? I can reproduce the problem at http://www.sencha.com/examples/#ExamplePlace:dialog in 3.0.1, but not in 3.0.6 at http://qa.sencha.com:8080/examples-3...lePlace:dialog, so it appears to have been fixed.

Confirmed. Issue has been fixed.

[pacmendoza]

Yeah, I saw this in one of the previous posts. I can get the focus to the dialog using

setFocusWidget(null)

but I need it to focus on the button. I'll wait for the update. Thanks!