Bug 295846

Description Björn Fischer 2009-11-23 06:35:08 EST

After bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=282490 is solved, tab traversal works much better than before in both IE and FF. Thanks for that :)

Unfortunately I recognized a different problem concerning tab traversal in IE7. Traversing TextCellEditors kind of works, but when the user is rather fast in pressing Tab, the focus is moved to IE UI (Address bar first, some other elements follow). I attached a test project with a simple view that contains nothing but a TableViewer with editing support and tabbing feature. You can reproduce the problem like this:

1. Run the test project (CelleditorText.launch)
2. Click the top left cell to activate cell editor
3. Press the TAB key - slowly - to traverse through cells. This should work.
4. Speed up the key presses. At some Point the focus will move to the adress bar instead of the next cell.
5. If you further traverse through the IE controls (in my case it takes about 10 TAB's) the focus returns to the TableViewer and - if you don't press too fast - traverses further through the TableViewer.

As far as I can see this problem does not appear in Firefox. But for IE users this bug is very annoying because one automatically speeds up tab pressing when not thinking about it.