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Bug 221158

Summary:

do not focus on the summary field when moving between editors

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Jakub Jurkiewicz <jakub.jurkiewicz>

Component:

Mylyn

Assignee:

Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

minor

Priority:

CC:

mik.kersten

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

3.2

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Bug Depends on:

262510

Bug Blocks:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
possible Fix	none
mylyn/context/zip	none
mylyn/context/zip	none
mylyn/context/zip	none
patch to disable focus tracking	none
patch	none

Description Jakub Jurkiewicz

2008-03-03 10:48:48 EST

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open editor for creating new task
2. Write something in the Summary field of the task
3. Go to the Description field of the task and write something in there
4. Go to some other editor
5. Go back to the editor with the new task -> Focus is on the Summary field and not on the Description field where it was while leaving the editor
This behavior is annoying especially when one wants to copy something from some other editor and paste it into to the Description field in the place where he/she stopped writing.

Comment 1 Frank Becker

2008-03-10 17:46:16 EDT

Created attachment 92094 [details]
possible Fix

I think that can fix this for the following Controls.

estimated, issueReportURL, Summary and Note

What do you think?

Comment 2 Frank Becker

2008-03-10 17:46:18 EDT

Created attachment 92095 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2008-04-29 02:41:28 EDT

Thanks Frank. I have implemented it in a similar way as suggested by your patch. Essentially any control that can accept focus gets a focus listener that remembers the last control that had focus for the next activation of the page.

Comment 4 Steffen Pingel

2008-04-29 02:41:31 EDT

Created attachment 97911 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 5 Steffen Pingel

2008-04-30 00:43:31 EDT

Created attachment 98118 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 6 Steffen Pingel

2008-06-12 22:33:28 EDT

Reopening to address a regression that is causing the task editor to change the scroll position when it gets the focus.

Comment 7 Steffen Pingel

2008-06-12 22:43:03 EDT

Created attachment 104797 [details]
patch to disable focus tracking

Comment 8 Steffen Pingel

2008-06-12 23:18:03 EDT

Created attachment 104800 [details]
patch

Comment 9 Steffen Pingel

2008-06-12 23:20:24 EDT

I have committed this patch. The behavior is now the following:

- the form toolkit does not track focus, i.e. not "automatic" scrolling
- when text is typed into a text field the form scrolls to the that text field
- when the form gains focus it will restore the focus to the control that had it last

Restoring focus will fail in certain cases, e.g. when controls are lazily constructed. I am deferring further tweaks to the next milestone.

Comment 10 Steffen Pingel

2009-05-29 01:28:21 EDT

Further improvements will be tracked on bug 236084.