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Bug 190606

Summary: [Keybindings]Hotkeys (mnemonics) in TabbedPropertyView overtake mnemonics in editor
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Alex Bernstein <alexberns>
Component: UIAssignee: Paul Webster <pwebster>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: carolynmacleod4, kurtism, markus.kell.r, mvictory, Tod_Creasey
Version: 3.2.1   
Target Milestone: 3.5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Alex Bernstein CLA 2007-06-01 18:41:40 EDT 
Build ID: 3.2

Steps To Reproduce:
1.create editor part with text and label widgets
2.create tabbed property view page with text and label widgets
3.assign same letter as mnemonic to labels in editor and property page
4. activate the editor and press Atl+(your mnemonic)
Notice how tabbedproperty view page is activated instead of focus going to control in the editor.


More information:
Comment 1 Paul Webster CLA 2007-06-04 09:00:30 EDT 
Interesting, it will always pick the view label over the editor label.

PW
Comment 2 Anthony Hunter CLA 2008-07-04 16:37:42 EDT 
*** Bug 135402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Paul Webster CLA 2008-07-08 09:56:43 EDT 
Carolyn, is it the OS that decides which mnemonic/field to jump to, or is it controlled by SWT (maybe the control that is in the lowest layer)?

PW
Comment 4 Markus Keller CLA 2008-08-13 14:30:49 EDT 
AFAIK, the policy has always been to not use mnemonics in the workbench window. 

Mnemonics in dialogs are also active in the whole dialog, and it would be a new feature if the workbench window decided to introduce scopes for mnemonics. Furthermore, mnemonics are likely to conflict with menu mnemonics (which is also not an issue in dialogs, since dialogs don't have a menu bar).
Comment 5 Markus Keller CLA 2008-08-13 14:55:22 EDT 
A dup of bug 72556?
Comment 6 Alex Bernstein CLA 2008-08-13 15:00:14 EDT 
Not to use mnemonics... meaning that any forms-based editor should not have hotkeys on labels and buttons?
Comment 7 Markus Keller CLA 2008-08-14 05:37:52 EDT 
Yep, any workspace part, i.e. all views and editors. The PDE editors also don't use mnemonics.
Comment 8 Paul Webster CLA 2008-08-14 09:18:01 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 72556 ***